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In October 2017, the US lifted economic and trade sanctions on Sudan, which have been in place since 1997, due to cooperation with the Sudanese government in fighting terrorism and reducing conflict. However, contrary to Sudanese hopes of improved economic conditions,...

The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network released its annual World Happiness Report on 20 March, revealing the world’s happiest and least happy countries in 2019. Finland has once again been ranked as the happiest country in the world,...

CNN senior international correspondent Nima Elbagir is receiving the 2019 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. LA Press Club will honour Elbagir with the 2019 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism...

The endless lines outside bakeries and petrol stations seem to suggest a purposeful naivety to dire economic and politics woes. The Kafkaesque bureaucratic systems that requires an element of nepotism to vitalise it into animation. The...

Over the years, I have learnt to embrace myself as a person. My abilities, my ethnicity, my sexual orientation, etc. I have also learnt adaptability from experience and life challenges. I still struggle with a lot...

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed on Sunday, 10 March 2018 shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa airport en route to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, killing all of its 157 passengers including the pilot and crew members....

It has been three months since anti-government protests began in Sudan. The protests began on a small-scale on 19 December 2018 due to a hike in prices of basic commodities such as bread and fuel shortages and...

As part of the ongoing anti-government protests in Sudan, Sudanese Professional Association (SPA) called on protesters across the country to partake in a march on Thursday, 7 March #موكب7مارس in honour of Sudanese women. تأكيد دعوة الخروج...

On 2 March 2019, students at the women-only Ahfad University for Women (AUW), a private higher education university in Omdurman and one of the top universities in Sudan, staged a peaceful and musical sit-in within their campus as part of...

One of my earliest and favourite childhood memories is when I was six years old. My grandmother told us that we will be getting henna. The dark reddish or black body art used by Sudanese women...