On the early morning of 25 October 2021, news broke out that several civilian members of the transitional Sovereign Council were arrested along with Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, in an apparent military coup led by the...

On 21 October 2021, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in a ‘Million March’ across Sudan to demonstrate their support for a civilian rule and objecting to a military rule. This was in...

South Sudanese women’s rights activist Riya William Yuyada has been named one of three winners of the Ginetta Sagan Award by Amnesty International USA, recognises women who ‘protect the dignity, liberties and lives of women and...

Award-winning Sudanese-British broadcaster and journalist Zeinab Badawi has been appointed as the new president of SOAS University of London, the university announced on 5 October 2021. We are pleased to announce that the award-winning broadcaster, journalist...

Sudan received the first shipment of over half a million doses of Pfizer vaccine on 6 October 2021 as a donation from the United States Government through the COVAX facility. #HappeningNow Sudan received the first shipment...

More than 357,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines have arrived at Khartoum International Airport on Saturday, 11 September 2021 as a grant from the Federal Republic of Germany. The doses will be distributed to all states of Sudan....

Abu Obaida Hassan, known as Sudan’s tambour master, has passed away at the age of 69 in Sudan of an undisclosed illness. #السوداني ||في ذمة الله الفنان الكبير أبو عبيدة حسن بعد معاناة مع المرض كان...

Sudan has received a shipment of 218,400 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as a donation from France on 27 August 2021. The vaccines were delivered with UNICEF’s support through the COVAX facility. 📦 @UNICEF continues...

The French government donated 59,520 doses of COVAX’s AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccines arrived in Juba, South Sudan on 31 August 2021 and were received at the airport by senior government officials led by Minister of...

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) South Sudan, more than 380,000 people have been affected by flooding in areas along the Nile River, Sudd wetlands and the rivers Lol...