Sudan: Human Trafficking Crimes Increasing in the East'[Radio Dabanga] Port Sudan / Kassala / Wad Madani -Residents of Red Sea state in eastern Sudan reported an increase in crimes concerning refugees and asylum seekers, including kidnappings, in the region.....
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Sudan: Cholera Still Spreading[Radio Dabanga] Darfur / El Gezira / Sennar / Northern State -At least ten Darfuris died of cholera last week. A joint UN-Sudanese mission visited Central Darfur "to report on gaps and challenges in the Acute Watery Diarrhoea response activities". New cases have been recorded south of Khartoum, in e....
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Sudan: Cholera - New Deaths and Infections Across the Country[Radio Dabanga] Singa / El Gedaref / Sennar -Singa Hospital in Sudan's Sennar received 16 new cases of cholera during the first half of this week. A woman has died before she could be transferred to hospital, and nine others were infected with cholera at El Matateib in North Delta locality in Sudan'....
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Attacks on aid workers increasing in South Sudan, UN saysRENK COUNTY, South Sudan – The United Nations says attacks against aid workers are increasing in South Sudan. A statement by the humanitarian co-ordinator there, Serge Tissot, says the attacks also put millions of South Sudanese in peril amid the country’s civil war. Millions face severe....
The South Sudan boxing club | World StoriesPuro Okelo is a South Sudanese returnee from Canada. In Juba, the capital of South Sudan, he is training a new generation of kickboxers to become champions.....
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Paris police evacuate 2,000 migrantsPARIS: French police moved out around 2,000 migrants from a makeshift camp in an area north of Paris on Friday, the 35th evacuation operation in two years in the capital.
A similar roundup of the mostly Afghan and African migrants around the Porte de la Chapelle area in July saw 2,800 moved from ....
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Egypt, Sudan stray further apart over Gulf crisisEgypt is doubling down on its efforts to convince African countries to take a stance against Qatar, while Sudan decided to take a neutral position over the Gulf crisis.....
Uganda: Number of Refugees in Uganda Tops 1 Million[Deutsche Welle] Refugees from South Sudan continue to flee the civil war across the Ugandan border, with their number now topping one million, according to the UN. Uganda has called for help with housing and feeding the newcomers.....
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South Sudan: Parliament Suspends Debate on Budget[VOA] South Sudan's parliament have suspended debate on a $451 million budget as questions linger over how government agencies will be financed and how money was spent during the past fiscal year.....
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King receives credentials of 13 foreign envoysKUALA LUMPUR: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Muhammad V, today received the credentials of 13 foreign envoys to Malaysia, at Istana Negara.
They are U Sein Oo of Myanmar, Mahmoud Hussien Saeed Qattan of Saudi Arabia, Charles C. Jose of the Philippines, Thamer Abdalla Mohammad Adwan of Jordan, ....
More than one million S. Sudan refugees in Uganda: UNGeneva, Switzerland, Aug 17 – South Sudan’s brutal civil war has forced more than one million people to flee to neighbouring Uganda alone, with another million seeking refuge elsewhere in the region, the UN’s refugee agency said Thursday. The UNHCR said additional funds were desper....
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1 million South Sudan refugees now in Uganda, UN saysKAMPALA, Uganda – The number of South Sudanese refugees sheltering in Uganda has reached 1 million, the United Nations said Thursday, a grim milestone for what has become the world’s fastest-growing refugee crisis. Ugandan officials say they are overwhelmed by the flow of people fleeing ....
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Muhamad Shahmeer shocked PM tweeted success in ChinaSEPANG: Muhamad Shahmeer Mohd Nashrul was shocked beyond words when he found that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak had conveyed his congratulations over his success at the 16th Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students on Aug 12.
The 22-year-old second....
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South Sudan: Is Peace Possible Without Rebel Leader Machar?[allAfrica] Cape Town -Four years into the South Sudan crisis, a solution is yet to be found. Gruesome crimes continue, with millions displaced and hundreds of thousands facing famine, according to numerous reports from Human Rights Watch. The group also points an accusing finger to both government ....
US slams foes and allies alike in religious freedom reportWASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States issued its annual religious freedom report on Tuesday, slamming allies and foes alike for their shortcomings at a time when its own record has come under fire.Launching the first report since President Donald Trump took office, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to....
Benin shock Nigeria in African Nations ChampionshipJOHANNESBURG: Benin shocked Nigeria 1-0 Sunday in African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifying to complete a rare weekend of football celebrations for the tiny west coast country.
On Saturday, Beninese Steve Mounie scored twice for promoted Huddersfield Town in a 3-0 triumph at Crystal Palace tha....
Bulgarian Lyuba Lukova Creates Unique Graphic Design Creations in Atlanta Design MuseumThe Bulgarian-born and New York-based artist Luba Lukova is one of those artists, whose career creating political and social-issue messages is documented in the 60 works featured in the Museum of Design Atlanta exhibition "Luba Lukova: Designing Justice."
Lukova has created posters for a variety ....
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How online gaming is being used to spread peace in South SudanSouth Sudan is Afrika's newest country. Before it's split from Sudan after three years of civil war, and after its independence, it continues to endure war and famine which is compounded by drought. The famine in South Sudan persists to this day with the United Nations (UN) reporting that the numb....
Kenya: Election Jitters Slow Down Activity At Mombasa Port[East African] Activity at the Mombasa port, which serves landlocked Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, slowed this past week as transporters pulled their fleets off the road over post-election uncertainties.....
Meet the world's 10 richest black billionairesBill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Jeff Bezos may be the richest men in the world, but they aren't the only billionaires.
There are 2,043 people across the globe with three commas in their net worths, according to the 2017 Forbes Billionaires list. The 23 wealthiest have $1 trillion collectively.
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South Sudan says releases 30 political prisonersNAIROBI, Aug 11 (Reuters) - South Sudan has released at least 30 political prisoners since President Salva Kiir declared an amnesty in May to facilitate.......
Sudan: Muawiya Al-Berir - Establishment of a Sudanese-Jordanian Industrial Zone[SNA] Khartoum -The Deputy Chairman of the Union of Sudanese Businessmen, Muawiya Al-Berir noted to the many advantage of the meeting of Sudanese and Jordanian businessmen held Wednesday, in the economic fields of the two countries, the most prominent of which is the opening of a shipping line betwe....
UN: 20 million face war-linked famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, NigeriaUNITED NATIONS, United States: More than 20 million people are at risk from famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and the northeast of Nigeria, the United Nations warned on Wednesday.
The Security Council officially declared for the first time that the threat was directly linked to the armed conf....
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Rise of the conservativesAN approach to Syariah that lacks "a just balance" and "compassion" has triumphed yet again. By withdrawing a clause that would have put an end to the unilateral conversion of children by the parent who has converted to Islam, the government has failed to prioritise the well-being of the child which....
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Long road to recovery for South Sudan's youngestBy Stefanie GlinskiJUBA, South Sudan, Aug 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For the past two weeks, Sandy has slept on the dirty floor of a small and stuffy.......
Sudan: Civil Society Supports Port Sudan Workers[Radio Dabanga] Port Sudan -Civil society assemblies in Port Sudan continue to denounce the state's government decision to establish new companies for loading and unloading at the ports. The move may negatively affect thousands of port workers.....
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First batch of regional troops arrive in South SudanJUBA, South Sudan, Aug 8 – The head of South Sudan’s UN mission announced on Tuesday the long-awaited arrival of troops from a regional force meant to patrol roads and quell violence in the war-ravaged country. The UN Security Council decided a year ago to deploy a 4,000-strong regional ....
Sudan: Minister of Oil and Gas Discusses Ways to Implement, Finance Oil, Supplies Projects With AB[SNA] Khartoum -The Minister of Oil and Gas, Dr. Abdul-Rahman Osman Abdul-Rahman has encouraged the African Bank to enter into financing the oil projects to achieve goals of the sustainable development, pointing to a number of projects of gas production for electricity generation in West of Sudan.....
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South Sudan: Machar Political Future in Doubt As He's Isolated[East African] Regional leaders continue to shun South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar, who is believed to be under house arrest in South Africa. He fled South Sudan after fresh fighting broke out in Juba in July.....
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South Sudan: Will Entebbe Talks Deliver Peace?[East African] South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and two factions of the warring parties agreed a fortnight ago to hold unification talks with various groups of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement mediated by Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni to end divisions between leaders of the ruling party....
Sudan: Prices Soar in Eastern Sudan's Kassala As Dollar Continues to Rise[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -People all over Sudan are suffering from a steady increase in prices of basic commodities as the Sudanese Pound (SDG) continues to drop rate against the US Dollar on the country's "parallel market". About 53,770 tons of various crops have been exported from North Kordofan t....
