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Reminiscing About Sudan in Movies: Lost Past, Misunderstood Present and Perplexing Future
Elmiene Releases “For The Deported” EP Honouring Sudan
The DJs of Sudan
Books
Reem Gaafar’s “A Mouth Full of Salt” Coming Out on 9 April
Zeinab Badawi Announces Publication of Her First Book “An African History of Africa”
New Book “100 Sudanese Verbs for Beginners” is All You Need to Master Verbs in Sudanese Arabic
Creative Writing
In Her First Book, Roaa Nizar Writes ‘To All Who Exist’
On What it Means to be Sudani: An Introspection
Crying for Omar
Photography
‘Modern Sudan’ Photography Competition Launched
‘Sudan Protests’: Regional Winner of the 2022 World Press Photo Contest
Introducing Food Stylist Thuraya Mahmoud
Society
Colourism and Skin Bleaching in South Sudan
Modesty in Sudan | Part III: Facing Patriarchal Power
The Natural Hair Movement in Sudan
Travel
Countries South Sudanese Can Travel to Visa-free
Countries Sudanese Can Travel to Visa-free
Atbara: The Cradle of the Sudan Uprising
Interviews
Tahani Ajak: The Unknown Helping Hand of Sudan’s Refugee Camps
Interview with Reem Gaafar, The First Sudanese to Win The Island Prize for African Novels
Ghost Season: A Debut Novel By Fatin Abbas
Foreigners’ Perspective
From Nimiti Paradise to Sand Dunes Dreamland
Five Things I Miss About Sudan
Sudan: A Home Away from Home
Science and Technology
Culture and Society in South Sudan in the Face of Climate Change
A Surgeon’s Legacy: Remembering Dr Isam Osman
Introducing Pesabase: Revolutionising Sending Money to South Sudan
Technology
Introducing Pesabase: Revolutionising Sending Money to South Sudan
Shakheto: Sudanese Team at 2023 Hult Prize Challenge
Blockchain for Cross-border Remittances in Sudan: A Humanitarian Approach
Health
Remembering Dr Bushra Ibnauf
B’Sarahah: New Initiative Tackling Mental Health in Sudan
Period Poverty in Sudan
Business and Economy
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Sudan Protests
What You Need to Know About Sudan’s Military and Civilian Power-Sharing Deal
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500 Words Magazine
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Jul 7, 2019
On 5 June 2019, the ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) and Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) have agreed to establish a joint 11-member military-civilian sovereign council that will rule the country by rotation for a period...
The Attacks of 13 May
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Afnan Hassab
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May 22, 2019
On 19 May, the Transitional Military Council (TMC) and the Alliance of Freedom and Change gathered around the table, after a 72-hour long period of suspending negotiations, to resume negotiations to determine or finalise an interim...
What You Need to Know About this Viral Photo and What it Represents
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500 Words Magazine
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Apr 10, 2019
Videos and pictures of a young woman leading chants in anti-government protests in Khartoum has gone viral overnight since it first appeared on 8 April, 2019. Pictures have been shared hundreds of thousands of times on...
Sinkane, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Joyce Karam & More React to Latest Mass Anti-Government Demonstrations in Sudan
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500 Words Magazine
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Apr 9, 2019
At the biggest rally so far, thousands of protesters have marched to and staged a sit-in at the headquarters of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Khartoum since 6 April, 2019. In the fourth day of the...
Sudan Witnesses Biggest Anti-Goverment Protest #6April
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Afnan Hassab
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Apr 8, 2019
The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), the entity leading the ongoing anti-government protests in Sudan, called out for a mass demonstration to the headquarters of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Khartoum and across Sudan in a protest dubbed...
Just Fall!
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Mohamed Gamal ElDin Abdelaal Khougali
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Mar 20, 2019
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...
Sudan After The Fall
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Mohammed Jalad
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Mar 13, 2019
In 1989, Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir seized power after a coup masterminded by the late Sudanese politician Dr Hassan Al Turabi. The purpose of the coup was to establish an Islamic government, and to ‘save’...
Sudan Protests Unearth Police Brutality
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Rawan Abazer
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Mar 11, 2019
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...
Sudanese Professional Association Calls on March to Honour Sudanese Women
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500 Words Magazine
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Mar 7, 2019
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...
Ahfad Student Sit-in Inspires ‘White Toub’ Trend
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500 Words Magazine
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Mar 5, 2019
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...
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