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World
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Africa
2/2/2023 5:38:56 PM
Hanah Zachariah is so determined to see Pope Francis in South Sudan that she walked nine days in sandals to reach the capital where he makes his long-awaited visit.
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World
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Africa
2/1/2023 11:02:52 AM
An estimated 1 million joyous Congolese poured into the capital's main airport Wednesday for Pope Francis' first big Mass in Africa, on a day dedicated to his call for peace and forgiveness in a country wracked by decades of violence.
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World
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Africa
1/31/2023 9:52:33 AM
Pope Francis is opening a six-day visit to Congo and South Sudan on Tuesday, aiming to bring a message of peace to two countries riven by poverty, conflict and what Francis has called a lingering ``colonialist mentality'' that still considers Africa ripe for exploitation.
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World
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Region
1/26/2023 5:36:35 PM
Sudan's leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Thursday that Khartoum and Addis Ababa are "aligned and in agreement" on a controversial Ethiopian dam on the Blue Nile which Egypt disputes over the filling and operation of the reservoir.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/12/2023 2:12:42 PM
Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry and his Sudanese counterpart Ali Al-Sadiq stressed the importance of advancing joint projects, including power linkage and agricultural integration projects, in a phone call on Wednesday.
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Business
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Energy
1/4/2023 11:02:01 PM
With a large surplus of electrical energy produced in the past eight years, Egypt is perfectly willing to supply Sudan with electricity to meet its energy needs, Egyptian Ambassador in Khartoum Hany Salah said.
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World
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Africa
12/28/2022 9:45:05 PM
South Sudan will send 750 soldiers to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo soon to join a regional force fighting a rebel offensive, a military spokesman said Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
12/28/2022 5:39:26 PM
At least 57 people were killed and more than a dozen others injured during recent ethnic violence in South Sudan's eastern Jonglei region, a local official said Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
12/24/2022 6:57:18 PM
Kenya's President William Ruto has expressed concern over the fighting in neighboring South Sudan and airlifted a donation of food stuffs to those affected.
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World
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Africa
12/7/2022 6:27:38 PM
Violence in South Sudan's far north has forced thousands of civilians to flee in recent weeks, UN agencies said Wednesday, adding some were hiding in swamps and eating shrubs to survive.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/8/2022 1:57:00 PM
Number of children affected by flooding in Chad, Gambia, Pakistan and north-east Bangladesh highest in over 30 years.
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World
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Region
10/23/2022 2:08:12 PM
Two days of tribal fighting in Sudan's south killed at least 220 people, a senior health official said Sunday, marking one the deadliest bouts of tribal violence in recent years. The unrest added to the woes of an African nation mired in civil conflict and political chaos.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/21/2022 7:11:48 PM
The devastating floods in South Sudan have blocked aid from reaching displaced people, the UN said Friday, warning that a camp housing 75,000 Sudanese refugees would receive no food this month.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
10/21/2022 4:16:00 PM
It seems Sudan and Ethiopia are eager to achieve calm relations in order to focus on their own internal challenges.
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World
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Region
10/20/2022 8:18:38 PM
Tribal clashes in Sudan's southern province of Blue Nile have killed 170 people over the past two days, two Sudanese officials said Thursday, the latest in inter-communal violence across the country's neglected south.
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World
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Africa
10/11/2022 9:48:37 PM
Around 909,000 people have reportedly been affected by flooding in South Sudan, the UN's emergency response agency said Tuesday, more than doubling estimates released last month as torrential rains ravage crops and destroy homes.
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World
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Africa
10/11/2022 9:05:16 PM
The United Nations said Tuesday that renewed clashes between armed tribal militias in South Sudan's Upper Nile State have displaced 8,000 civilians.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/24/2022 9:43:14 PM
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed on Saturday the latest developments in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue with Sudan’s chairman of the Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel-Fattah El-Burhan in Cairo, the Egyptian presidency announced.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/20/2022 7:04:02 PM
Sudanese Minister of Labour and Administrative Reform Suad Al-Tayeb Hassan thanked on Tuesday President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi for giving Sudanese expats in Egypt – who include nearly 5 million workers – a six-month period to legalise their conditions, which will end on 2 October 2022.
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World
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Region
9/15/2022 9:58:47 PM
Pope Francis is studying a possible visit to Bahrain in November and said Thursday he is looking to reschedule his trip to South Sudan and Congo for February.
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