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“Be My Guest”: Trust as Economic Capital in Sudanese Displacement
The Sudan War series is a joint collaboration between the Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation – Khartoum (CEDEJ-K), Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC) and African Arguments – Debating Ideas. Through a number of...
New Study Proposes Smarter Cropland Allocation To Support Sustainable Agricultural Intensification In Senegal
A new study published in the Journal of Cleaner Production presents a novel approach to sustainable agricultural intensification, with promising implications for food security and land conservation in Senegal. Conducted by researchers at the...

Crop growth takes off in warm weather, but so do weeds
By Becky and Shawn Feikema of Luverne, Minn. It's officially summer, and the crops are soaking up the sunshine they missed earlier in the growing season. Moisture has been adequate as well with 1.5-2 inches of rain in the last two weeks....

Syrian, Sudanese agricultural cooperation to boost investment
Damascus, SANA-Syrian Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Amjad Badr, discussed Wednesday with the Chargé d’Affaires of the Sudanese Embassy in Damascus, Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim Hassan, mechanisms for activating agricultural cooperation agreements between the...

Sudanese Teachers’ Committee rejects decision to return to schools in Khartoum in absence of security and services
The Sudanese Teachers’ Committee has voiced its disagreement with a decision by the Khartoum state government’s decision to reopen schools, saying that the move ignores the deteriorating security, health, and economic reality, and post a direct...

PM Al-Sudani warns of firm response to threats, backs Israel-Iran truce
2025-06-24T16:28:42+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News/ On Tuesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani reaffirmed that Iraq would respond decisively to any threat to national security. According to a statement by the PM’s...

UNICEF ED: Children bearing brunt of Sudan war, refugee life in Chad
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Monday concluded a three-day mission to Chad, warning of the worsening crisis affecting children in the eastern part of the country that has seen the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees from...

Ethiopia Providing Training to Sudanese Professionals on Ground Water Technology
Addis Ababa, June 23, 2025 (ENA) -- Ethiopia is dedicated to fostering knowledge and experiences among Sudanese professionals in ground water investigation and related technologies, Water and Energy State Minister, Asfaw Dingamo affirmed. The...

County approves next step in Sudan property redevelopment
The Craven County Board of Commissioners approved the next step in the Sudan Property Redevelopment Project during its most recent regular meeting. During the meeting in the commissioner’s room at the Craven County Administration Building, 406...

Goons and guns: Sudan's tragic cycle, Kenya's tragic mirror
State sponsored goons whipping journalists and protestors along Waiyaki Way during Justice For Ojwang Protests on June 17, 2025. [Kanyiri Wahito, Standard] The near-total anarchy witnessed in Nairobi last Tuesday should worry us. And learn...

Against a Background of War, Sudan Works to Restore Clinics, Distribute Medicine, and Locate Patients
By Talya Meyers When Dr. Salwa Elhassan talks about the children who have been killed by Sudan's war, she isn't only referring to the casualties of violence. She's also talking about children who have died from lack of medicine or medical care -...

AFRICA/UGANDA - “Voices of Peace”: campaign by Sudanese youth to launch a sustainable peace process
Friday, 20 June 2025 Internet Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – “Stopping the war has become a national demand”. This is the goal of a group of Sudanese youth who have launched the “Voices of Peace” campaign in Kampala, Uganda. Inaugurated on Saturday,...

For too long, the “unrelated horrors” took place in Sudan
Since the civil war broke out in April 2023 between the generals of the national army and their former rivals become allies, the militia of the rapid support forces (RSF), large regions of the country were left in ruins. The conflict has fueled...

Groups Representing Millions Have A Message To Those At UN Climate Talks In Bonn
June 18, 2025 Climate justice and human rights activists gather to condemn the UN climate talk’s failure to end the corporate stranglehold over climate action. Climate justice groups, women and gender activists, youth, Indigenous and local...

Working from Homelessness: Informal Livelihoods of Displaced Women in Port Sudan
The Sudan War series is a joint collaboration between the Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation – Khartoum (CEDEJ-K), Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC) and African Arguments – Debating Ideas. Through a number of...

Kenya denies reports linking it to arms transfers fueling Sudan war
Kenya denies reports linking it to arms transfers fueling Sudan war NAIROBI - Kenya has vehemently denied a role in the ongoing conflict in Sudan following reports that a cache of weapons of origin from the East African nation was identified...

UN experts urge arms embargo, accountability for serious rights violations in Sudan
The civil war in Sudan is intensifying with devastating consequences for civilians, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan warned Tuesday, urging the international community to enforce an arms embargo and hold...

Global: Urgent action needed as climate crisis leads to devastating new harms to human rights
States must urgently deliver ambitious climate action by mapping out a just transition away from fossil fuels in all sectors to prevent even worse human rights harms around the world, Amnesty International said in a new briefing to mark the start...

Hope and Mercy in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains
After ten years of medical training, I decided to take a break. A break from the grind of academic medicine, from the constant striving for the next publication, the next accolade, the next prestigious conference. Busyness had distracted me from...

Land justice, drought, and desertification: How a Sudanese town is standing up for its rights
By Sarah Burroughs On June 4, hundreds of residents of Wadi Halfa, Northern State, blocked all major entrances to the town, preventing trucks from passing. The protesters told Radio Dabanga that they were upset about scheduled power outages, which...