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What Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis can teach us about Ethiopia - Devex
Earlier this month, tensions between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s national government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, a rival political party that controls the Tigray region in the north, escalated into catastrophic violence. To-date, more than 40,000 civilians...
Sudan Excluded From US List of Counterterrorism Uncooperative States - Asharq Al-Awsat
Sudan was excluded, for the first time since 1993, from the list of uncooperative countries in combating terrorism which was issued by the...
Sudan military admits security forces committed 'violations' after protests turned deadly - Fox News
Sudan’s longtime genocidal dictator may be gone, but violence and repression continue to wreak havoc across the country as the ruling military council admitted "violations" after more than 100 protesters were killed following a sit-in camp outside...
Sudan’s Protesters Reject Military Plan a Day After Bloody Crackdown - New York Times
A day after security forces violently cleared the main protest camp in Khartoum, the leaders of Sudan’s protest movement rejected a plan by the nation’s military leaders to hold elections within nine months. The protesters vowed instead to...
After the 'euphoria': The humanitarian backdrop to Sudan's protests - New Humanitarian
President Donald Trump and Congress are on a collision course over the future of U.S. nuclear weapons. Factions within the Sudanese military vy for power after a military coup against President Omar Bashir. Washington is trying a softer approach to block China’s Huawei from...
The Fall of Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the 'Spider' at the Heart of Sudan's Web - New York Times
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir loved to tell the story about his broken tooth. As a schoolboy working on a construction site, he told supporters in January, he fell and broke the tooth while carrying a heavy load. Instead of seeking treatment he rinsed his mouth with saltwater and kept working. Later, after he...
The Fall of Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the ‘Spider’ at the Heart of Sudan’s Web - New York Times
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir loved to tell the story about his broken tooth. As a schoolboy working on a construction site, he told supporters in January, he fell and broke the tooth while carrying a heavy load. Instead of seeking treatment he rinsed his mouth with saltwater and...
Will South Sudan's New Peace Agreement Hold This Time? - NPR
Tens of thousands of South Sudanese cheered, paraded and danced around the grounds of the John Garang Memorial Park in the capital city of Juba last week, celebrating a fresh peace deal. It was a striking change of mood for a country that has seen little joy in the past five years, ripped apart by a civil war that has displaced millions and left hundreds of thousands dead. Rebel leader, Riek Machar, who once served as the country's vice president, had flown back from exile and took the stage last Thursday along with South Sudan's president, Salva Kiir. The arch...
South Sudan: Juba residents jubilant over new peace deal - Al Jazeera
Thousands of residents of South Sudan's capital Juba have been celebrating a peace deal struck between President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar, which rekindles hope that the guns will stop firing. The second power-sharing agreement deal was signed on Sunday in Khartoum...