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Every year, Muslims celebrate two major holidays: Eid Al Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan and the beginning of the month of Shawwal, and Eid Al Adha, which falls on the...

With complex states like those of Sudanese history came the need to record information too inconvenient to memorise. As a result, Sudan boasts over 2,500 years of written culture, one of the oldest histories of writing...

Udhiya, also known as Qurbani, is an Islamic ritual sacrifice of livestock, most commonly a sheep, performed during Eid Al Adha. It signifies devotion and remembrance of Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail in...

Smoke, fire, and panic. The picture shows the destruction of one of the fuel sites in Port Sudan, leaving people terrified, as many continue to hope for an end to Sudan’s ongoing war instead of further...

Although Arabic dominates today, Sudan remains ethnically and linguistically diverse. The more than 100 languages spoken across the country reflect millennia of migrations and political shifts, weaving a complex and diverse social fabric. One of the...

The death of Pope Francis on 21 April 2025, reverberated deeply across South Sudan, a nation grappling with persistent political violence, widespread displacement, and profound economic collapse. For a country where the Catholic Church serves as...

Sudan is currently the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis, driven by an ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which began on 15 April 2023. The conflict has displaced...

Army chief and de facto head of state, Abdel Fattah Al Burhan, has appointed Kamil Idris as prime minister on Monday, 19 May 2025 as part of changes to his sovereign council in the midst of Sudan’s...

A 24-year-old Sudanese student was stabbed to death, and another critically injured, by Indian assailants on Thursday, 15 May 2025, in Maheru village in Phagwara, Punjab, a state in northwestern India. In Phagwara India a Sudanese...

Sudan Children’s Cancer Organization (SCCO) launched a campaign to renovate and expand Sudan’s only paediatric oncology unit at National Cancer Institute (NCI), which is currently under-resourced and overwhelmed. Located in Wad Madani, NCI serves as a key...