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Thousands of people have demonstrated almost daily in anti-Bashir protests

Thousands protest amid calls for civilian govt in Sudan

Thousands of Sudanese demonstrators have camped outside the defence ministry in Khartoum to push for a civilian government, defying a curfew and calling for mass prayers after the military overthrew Omar al-Bashir after 30 years of autocratic rule.

World • 12 Apr 19

Omar al-Bashir has been in power for three decades

Sudan's Bashir detained, military council takes over

Sudan's defence minister has said President Omar al-Bashir has been detained "in a safe place" and that a military council will run the country for a two-year transitional period.

World • 11 Apr 19

Thousands of protesters have been demonstrating since Saturday outside the army complex

Sudan security forces tear gas protesters in Khartoum

Sudanese security forces have fired tear gas at thousands of protesters who had massed outside the army headquarters in Khartoum for a second night demanding that President Omar al-Bashir resign, witnesses said.

World • 08 Apr 19

Omar al-Bashi has been in power since a 1989 coup

Protest hits Khartoum as police block march on palace

Hundreds of protesters have rallied in Sudan's capital as riot police deployed heavily to prevent a planned march on President Omar al-Bashir's palace to call for his resignation following days of deadly demonstrations.

World • 25 Dec 18

The woman was flogged at a police station in Omdurman (file pic)

Sudanese woman flogged for marrying without consent

Sudanese police lashed a woman 75 times after a court found her guilty of marrying a man without her father's consent, her lawyer and rights activists said.

Sudan • 15 May 18

Omar al-Bashir had been attending an African Union summit of leaders in South Africa

Sudanese President returns despite court order

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has arrived home in Khartoum from Johannesburg, an AFP correspondent said, after a court ordered him not to leave as it decided whether to arrest him over alleged war crimes.

News • 15 Jun 15

Sudanese soldiers wave the national flag

Six kidnapped Bulgarians freed in Sudan

Six Bulgarian contractors for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) who were held for a week by Sudan rebels have been freed, the Bulgarian foreign ministry said.

News • 01 Feb 15

Mr Bashir called the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur calling them a 'security burden'

Sudan orders two senior UN officials to leave

Sudan has ordered two senior United Nations officials to leave, in what appeared to be an escalation of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's move against UN activities in the country.

News • 25 Dec 14

Meriam Yahia Ibrahim and her family met Pope Francis in Rome

Sudanese woman Meriam Ibrahim arrives in US

A Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for converting from Islam to Christianity and then detained after her conviction was quashed has arrived in the US.

News • 01 Aug 14

Pope Francis meets Mariam Yahya Ibrahim and her baby daughter, who was born in prison, at the Vatican

Sudanese death row woman meets Pope in Italy

A Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for converting from Islam to Christianity then detained after her conviction was quashed, flew into Rome today and hours later met the Pope.

News • 24 Jul 14

Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag was sentenced to death by the court near Khartoum

Sudanese woman sentenced to death gives birth

A Christian Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for apostasy has given birth in jail, a Western diplomat has said.

News • 27 May 14

A South Sudanese man holds a placard reading 'No to War, Yes to Elections!' and the country's flag

South Sudan to postpone presidential elections

South Sudan will postpone the 2015 presidential election to give warring factions time to reconcile, President Salva Kiir has said,

World • 12 May 14

Rising violence in South Sudan in the past two weeks is threatening to cut the country's crude output

Brent down on signals of Libyan oil recovery

Brent crude fell below $112 a barrel today on early signals that oil output from Libya may be starting to recover.

Business • 30 Dec 13

The United States has sent two detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility back to their native Sudan

US repatriates two Guantanamo prisoners to Sudan

The United States has sent two detainees held at Guantanamo Bay back to their native Sudan, the US Defense Department said.

News • 19 Dec 13

At least 13 dead in military plane crash in Sudan

A Sudanese military plane has crashed in a rural area west of the capital Khartoum, killing at least 13 of the 20 armed forces personnel on board and injuring others.

News • 07 Oct 12

To date, 111 countries have joined the Convention on Cluster Munitions

750k cluster bombs destroyed since 2008 convention

Nearly 750,000 cluster munitions containing 85 million submunitions have been destroyed by countries that joined the Convention on Cluster Munitions adopted in Dublin in 2008.

News • 06 Sep 12

The plane crashed in the mountains around Talodi

Up to 32 people killed in Sudan plane crash

Up to 32 people, including at least one Sudanese minister, have been killed in a plane crash in the south of the country.

News • 20 Aug 12

Sudan confirms oil deal with South Sudan

Sudan has confirmed that it has reached an oil agreement with South Sudan.

News • 04 Aug 12

Sudanese Finance Minister Ali Mahmud proposed austerity measures two days ago

Protests in Sudan over austerity cuts

Hundreds of Sudanese joined anti-government demonstrations in Khartoum, as protests against spending cuts flared for a second week despite a security crackdown.

News • 25 Jun 12

South Sudan frees prisoners to defuse tension

South Sudan freed Sudanese prisoners of war today in a gesture it hopes will defuse tension between Khartoum and Juba.

News • 25 Apr 12

South Sudan troops seized the disputed oil-producing territory of Heglig

South Sudan bombed by Sudanese aircraft

Sudanese aircraft have bombed the town of Bentiu in South Sudan, three days after South Sudan pulled out of a disputed oil field in the region.

News • 23 Apr 12

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