Category: News

Sudan’s director of Museums: national treasures have been stolen

In September, amid the ongoing war in Sudan, reports began to surface of the looting of the Sudan National Museum in the capital, Khartoum. The museum is internationally celebrated for the breadth of its collection. It illustrates powerful and unique African kingdoms from the ancient and medieval…
Burhan sacks foreign, information and endowment ministers

On Sunday evening, the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council in Sudan, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, issued a decision to terminate the appointments of Foreign Minister Hussein Awad, Information Minister Graham Abdul Qadir, and Endowments Minister Osama Ahmed, and to appoint replacements…
War decimates harvest in famine-threatened Sudan

Ahmed Othman’s farm has been spared from the deadly fighting that has spread across Sudan, but the war’s toll on the economy and labour market has still reached him. “I had to sell two vehicles” to afford to harvest this…