Sudan News

Goodbye Julia, the debut feature from Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani, has been selected to screen at this year’s Cannes Film Festival 2023 or Festival de Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section, a milestone for Sudan, marking the country’s...

Pope Francis is visiting the DRC from 31 January to 3 February, and South Sudan from 3 to 5 February. The last visit by a pope to the DRC, Africa’s largest Catholic nation, was 38 years...

The Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff published the calendar of solemn liturgies, which includes Pope Francis conducting several masses in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan from 31 January to...

Heroic Bodies, a new Sudanese documentary film by Sudanese filmmaker Sara Suliman, has made its debut at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2022, one of the leading documentary festivals in the world. صور ومقتطفات من...

Sudanese rapper and dancer Rana Bader Aldeen was found dead in an apartment in Khartoum North (Bahri) on 25 December 2022. She has been dead for approximately 10 days until she was found. She appeared to...

In July 2022, the story of Maryam Tiyrab, a 20-year-old Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, broke out. It was the first known case in the country for almost a decade. She...

Award-winning Sudanese-Scottish writer Leila Aboulela is to publish a new novel, River Spirit, on 7 March 2023. The novel explores the imperialist history of Sudan during the Mahdist War in the 19th century. The US edition...

Strictly Come Dancing star Hamza Ahmed Yassin is the winner of BBC One’s dance competition. Hamza is not only the first Sudanese-British to win the competition, but also the first to compete on the show entirely....

French-Alegrian model Younes Bendjima, Canadian singer and songwriter Daniel Caesar, American singer and songwriter Omar Apollo and other celebrities are in Sudan for unknown reasons. Bendjima has been posting videos on his stories about their trip...

The BBC has revealed its list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2022. Former South Sudanese professional basketball player and NBA scouter Sarah Chan has been named as one of those women....