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Sudan Nashra: Burhan turns down meeting with Kenyan president, holds indirect Egypt-mediated talks with Haftar | RSF rejects Fasher humanitarian truce | Hemedti named Tasees chair | Kamel Idris appoints 3 new ministers
Mada Masr
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July 5, 2025
Over the past week, Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) Chair and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) Commander-in-Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan made two international visits — first to Seville, Spain, then to Alamein, Egypt. Burhan arrived in Seville...
Sudan's Khartoum strives to recover amid ongoing civil war
Birmingham Star - Alabama
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KHARTOUM, July 5 (Xinhua) -- After more than two years of devastating conflict, Sudan's capital Khartoum is slowly emerging from the ruins of war, inching toward a return to normal life. Across much of the city, scars of battle remain visible,...
MSF: Access to healthcare in Sudan 'almost impossible' as attacks on healthcare facilities increase
Africanews
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July 5, 2025
Humanitarian organisations are sounding the alarm over attacks on healthcare facilities in Sudan, warning that 70 percent of them are closed or barely operational. In a new report entitled ’Besieged, Attacked, Starved,’ Médecins Sans Frontières...
Social Voices trains African journalists on gender equity reporting
The Cable
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July 4, 2025
Social Voices has trained over 130 journalists, writers and media professionals from across Africa on reporting gender issues through a solutions-driven lens. The three-day virtual training, in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network,...
Sydney competitive eater places third in US hot dog eating contest
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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July 5, 2025
Cranberry juice and minimal chewing. That's how Sydney man James Webb said he was able to eat 45-and-a-half hot dogs in just 10 minutes. The massive feat landed the 36-year-old a podium finish at Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York....
Feature: Sudan's Khartoum strives to recover amid ongoing civil war
Xinhua News Agency
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KHARTOUM, July 4 (Xinhua) -- After more than two years of devastating conflict, Sudan's capital Khartoum is slowly emerging from the ruins of war, inching toward a return to normal life. Across much of the city, scars of battle remain visible,...
PM al-Sudani navigates Syria relations despite domestic tensions
Shafaq News
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2025-07-04T16:45:08+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani is pursuing a cautious diplomatic strategy following the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last winter, engaging...
Civilians in Sudanese city El Fasher 'at risk of mass killings and starvation'
Modern Ghana
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Mass killings and starvation threaten hundreds of thousands of people trapped in El Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur, as fighting closes in, the charity Doctors Without Borders has warned its latest report. The medical NGO, known by its...
Belfast priest raises over £34,000 for life-saving work in Sudan and Gaza
The Irish News
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July 4, 2025
A Belfast-based priest has raised over £34,000 to support life-saving humanitarian work in two of the world’s most war-torn countries. Canon Sean Rogan of Drumbo and Carryduff Parish came up with the idea of a fundraising concert after seeing the...
How the UAE’s Foreign Policy Backfired in Syria and Sudan
The National Interest - Washington D.C.
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July 4, 2025
The foreign policy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has faced numerous challenges in recent years. From the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, after Abu Dhabi had invested immense political capital to normalize relations with his regime, to the...
Sudanese Refugees and IDPs Disproportionately Affected By Crisis
Inter Press Service
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July 3, 2025
Africa, Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Gender Violence, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Migration & Refugees, TerraViva United Nations Children are screened for malnutrition and provided with treatment at Elhmedia...
Sudan: RSF paramilitaries and allies declare parallel government
Africanews
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July 3, 2025
In Sudan, the Tasis alliance announced on Tuesday, July 1, the creation of a governance council. This coalition of armed groups, political parties, and civil society organizations, allied with the Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries, was launched...
Sudanese nomads kill two farmers
Number One Citizen Daily
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July 3, 2025
By Hou Akot Hou At least two people succumbed to injuries sustained from a fight between Dinka Malual and Rezigat nomads in two separate incidences. The incidents occurred on Wednesday last week, at Kiir-Adem border point in Aweil North County of...
Could you eat 60 hot dogs in 10 minutes? One Aussie is about to try
WAtoday
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July 4, 2025
“The first year I competed in 2022, I finished on the podium. The only person to do that at his first attempt was Joey Chestnut, the LeBron James, the Michael Jordan, the Tom Brady of competitive eating. His record is 76 hot dogs in ten minutes....
Sudan, Remember Us review: A brief moment of possibility punctuated by shocking violence
The Irish Times
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Sudan, Remember Us Director: Hind Meddeb Cert: None Genre: Documentary Starring: Hind Meddeb Running Time: 1 hr 17 mins This vital time capsule of events sometimes livestreamed or captured on phones taps the emotional and revolutionary...
3 ministers appointed in Sudan's new cabinet: report
Xinhua News Agency
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KHARTOUM, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Sudan's transitional Prime Minister Kamil Idris issued a decree on Thursday appointing three ministers as part of the new 22-member cabinet, official news agency SUNA reported. As part of the "Government of Hope"...
933 people killed in attacks on health facilities in Sudan in H1: NGO
Xinhua News Agency
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KHARTOUM, July 3 (Xinhua) -- The non-governmental humanitarian organization Save the Children said on Thursday that 933 people were killed in attacks on health facilities in Sudan during the first half of 2025. "At least 933 people, including...
OCHA: ‘Cholera outbreak escalates as Sudan health system crumbles’
Dabanga Radio
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July 3, 2025
Sudan’s cholera outbreak is rapidly worsening, driven by conflict, mass displacement, and a collapsed health system. According to a recent report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), since July 2024, more than...
Egypt hosts secret talks between Sudan's Burhan and Libya's Haftar in bid to mend ties, sources say
Middle East Eye
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July 3, 2025
Egypt hosted direct talks between Sudan’s army chief and de-facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Libya's eastern commander Khalifa Haftar this week, in a bid to mediate between two allies on opposing sides of Sudan’s war, multiple sources told...
Vast numbers who fled Sudan's Zamzam camp still at risk from violence
The National News
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At least 400,000 people have fled Sudan’s Zamzam displacement camp in less than three weeks due to heavy violence and fighting, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday. The findings by the medical charity, published in a report titled...