Sudan News

Goodbye Julia, the first-ever Sudanese feature to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, has been selected by Sudan to be its second-ever Academy Awards submission for best international feature film. In May 2023, the debut feature from Sudanese filmmaker...

More than 1,200 refugee children under the age of five have died in nine camps between 15 May and 14 September 2023, due to a deadly combination of a suspected measles outbreak and high malnutrition, according...

On 13 September 2023, TIME, the American news magazine based in New York City, published its annual TIME100 Next list with Sudanese art curator Duaa Tariq making the list. Divided into five categories – Artists, Phenoms, Innovators,...

South Sudan has secured their first Olympic basketball place after beating Angola 101-78 on Saturday, 2 September 2023 in Manila, Philippines. 🏀 SSD takes lead vs Angola in last stand at the 2023 World Cup 🇸🇸#WinForSouthSudan...

Musician Abu Araki Abdelrahim, a member of the popular Sudanese music group, Igd Al Jalad, has been killed after a mortar hit Al Hammadab Mosque in Al Shajara neighbourhood in Khartoum on 23 August 2027. Other casualties...

Al-Hila, a competition to rehabilitate a neighbourhood in Sudan, has been interrupted by the ongoing war in Sudan. The competition was formerly sponsored by Sudan Urban Development Think-Tank (SUDTT) and is now in need of a new sponsor...

If you lost contact with or are looking for a missing family member in Sudan? The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Sudan together with the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) might be able to help...

Sudanese flutist Hafiz Abdelrahman Mukhtar passed away in Sudan on Friday, 21 July 2023. He was buried on the same day in Omdurman. The cause of death has not been disclosed. Born in Nyala, the capital...

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Sudanese composer and oud player Asma Hamza, who was one of the first Sudanese and Arab female composers. According to Google Doodle, on this day in 1997, Asma was amongst the winners...

South Sudan is the fourth least peaceful country in the world, ranking 160 out of 163 countries on the 2023 Global Peace Index (GPI) with an overall score of 3.221 out of 5. South Sudan scored...