Sudan Says It Signs Deal on Normalizing Ties With Israel
Sudan on Wednesday said it had signed an agreement with the United States that paves the way for the cash-strapped African nation to normalize relations with Israel.
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US Jettisons Sudan From Sponsor-of-Terror Blacklist
The Trump administration took Sudan off a federal terrorism blacklist Monday, less than two months after the country agreed to normalize its relations with Israel.
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Sudan Braces for up to 200,000 Fleeing Ethiopia Fighting
Up to 200,000 refugees could pour into Sudan while fleeing the deadly conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, officials say, while the first details are emerging of largely cut-off civilians under growing strain.
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Normalizing Relations with Israel, Sudan to Move Off US Terror List
The White House quoted the president on Friday as having told Congress he will formally remove Sudan from the list of U.S. state sponsors of terrorism in exchange for the country paying up $335 million to victims.
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Sudan Trial Defense Rejects Case Against Ousted Bashir
The trial of Sudan’s ousted president Omar al-Bashir and others over a 1989 coup heard defense arguments Tuesday dismissing charges of illegal use of military force.
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Trump Says Sudan to Be Removed From Terrorism List
President Donald Trump on Monday said Sudan will be removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism if it follows through on its pledge to pay $335 million to American terror victims and their families.
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International Court Appeals Judges Uphold Detention of Darfur Suspect
Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court upheld Thursday the detention of an alleged Sudanese militia leader charged with more than 50 crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Darfur conflict.
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Sudan’s ‘Silent Death’ From Flesh-Eating Cuts
It seemed little to worry about: Sudanese farmer Khadija Ahmad was planting onions when she stepped on a thorn that pierced her sandal and cut her foot.
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Sudan Floods Threaten Ancient Archaeological Gem
Rising Nile floodwaters are threatening to swamp an ancient archaeological site in Sudan, after some of the highest ever recorded river levels, archaeologists said Monday.
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UN Says New Polio Outbreak in Sudan Caused by Oral Vaccine
The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad — a week after the U.N. health agency declared the African continent free of the wild polio virus.
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Gold-Hunting Diggers Destroy Sudan’s Priceless Past
Sudan is Africa’s third largest producer of gold, after South Africa and Ghana, with commercial mining bringing in $1.22 billion to the government last year.
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Sudan Inks Provisional Peace Deal With SPLM-N Rebels
Sudan’s transitional government has signed a provisional peace deal with a leading rebel group that foresees its fighters being integrated into the army by November 2023, ending decades of conflict.
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Peanut Traders Baffled by Sudan Export Ban on Key Cash Crop
Sudan has been a top producer of peanuts for so long that the nutritious variety is called the “Sudani” — but a government export ban has left traders reeling.
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Sudan’s Ousted Strongman Bashir on Trial for His Life
Sudan’s former Ppresident Omar al-Bashir, ousted in a popular pro-democracy uprising last year, went on trial Tuesday for the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago.
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Militia Leader Hauled Before Hague Court Denies War Crimes
Making his first appearance Monday at the International Criminal Court, a former Sudanese Janjaweed militia leader disputed the 50 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity he faces.
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Justices Reinstate Punitive Damages for Embassy Bomb Victims
Sudan owes more than $10 billion for sponsoring the simultaneous 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings by al-Qaida that killed 200 people in Kenya and Tanzania, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, refusing to eliminate punitive damages.
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Embassy Bomb Victims Call on High Court to Reinstate Punitive Damages
Emphasizing the U.S. military response to Sudan for having supported a pair of embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, a lawyer for the victims argued Monday at the Supreme Court that punitive damages were appropriate.
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Supreme Court Hears From Victims of Embassy Bombings
Doreen Oport was pulled from the rubble of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1998 covered in blood. Her hair was burned from the bombing. Pieces of metal and glass were embedded in her skin.
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UN Report: South Sudan’s Rival Sides Are Starving Civilians
South Sudanese officials have diverted millions of dollars of state funds that are badly needed by civilians as the country staggers away from civil war, a United Nations commission said Thursday, and it accused rival fighters of deliberately starving people for strategic gain.
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Locust Swarms Eat Their Way Through East Africa
The worst locust outbreak that East Africa has seen in 70 years has reached South Sudan, a country where roughly half the population already faces hunger after years of civil war, officials said Tuesday.
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