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The first plane of the Moroccan flag carrier, Royal Air Maroc, coming from Sudan landed, Wednesday morning at Mohammed V Airport, with on board 136 Moroccan nationals evacuated from Sudan, after the deterioration of the security situation in this country. Read more
Al-Jazeera’s Khartoum bureau chief, Sudanese Al-Moussalami al-Kabbachi, was released on Tuesday, the Qatari channel announced, while hundreds of arrests have taken place since the October 25 coup in this East African country. Arrested on Sunday at his home, Mr. Kabbachi Read more
Sudan has confiscated a shipment of arm from Ethiopia onboard Ethiopian Airline for fear that the arsenal was destined for use in “crimes against the state”, reports say. Authorities were reportedly of “the arrival of a weapons shipment from Addis Read more
Qatar’s national carrier, Qatar Airways, has said it would resume flying to Sudan’s capital of Khartoum on May 11 two years after suspending the route due to sea/air/land blockade imposed by its neighbors. “Sudan is a strategically important market for Read more
The American-Russian military competition is in full swing in the Red Sea, on the Sudanese coast. Last December, Russia announced an agreement with Khartoum to build a naval base in Port Sudan. However, since its removal from the American blacklist Read more
A Russian warship has entered a Sudanese port in a strong sign ahead of the construction in the African country of the first Russian military base in Africa. Admiral Grigorovich, reportedly docked at Port Sudan Sunday, becoming therefore the first Read more
Egypt and Sudan are in talks to launch “Just Meat”, a selling branded meat as both countries agree to set up two meat industry plants in Egypt. The Egypt government in a statement said both sides agreed to set up Read more
December 31 in Sudan marks the official end of the Joint United Nations-African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). The evacuation of all personnel and equipment will begin on 1 January and is expected to be completed by 30 June. Read more
This measure was taken in 1993 to punish Sudan for harbouring Osama Bin Laden and several Al Qaeda militants. Khartoum was accused of complicity in certain terrorist operations. With this decision, it is the end of a long wait for Read more
The legal adviser of young Sudanese lured to get jobs in the United Arab Emirates but who ended up fighting in Libya on the side of war lord Khalifa Haftar, is preparing a lawsuit including human trafficking against 10 prominent Read more