Eng. Hatem Saleh, Egypt's Industry Minister, said that the Egyptian government is seeking to overcome this stage through the joint cooperation with the Nile Basin countries and having real partnerships with them during the coming period. Moreover, it looks for real solutions for the problems with (...)
EL FASHER, Sudan: As part of its support to recovery and development in Darfur, the African Union – United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) on 22 November presented 12 tents to the North Darfur Ministry of Education to be used as mobile classrooms for nomads in five localities in North (...)
EL FASHER, Sudan: More than 150 women in Zalingei, Central Darfur, took part in a three-day training aimed at raising awareness of the negative health consequences and human rights violations associated with Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The workshop, organized by the African Union – United (...)
El Merreikh's Egyptian goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary committed a fatal mistake to help Congo's Leopards claim a 2-1 home win over his club El Merreikh of Sudan in the first leg of the Confederation Cup semi-final on Sunday.
The game looked as though it was heading for a draw when El-Hadary's dreadful (...)
Misr Insurance Company plans to expand in the medical insurance sector in the Arab markets soon in collaboration with Arab insurance and healthcare companies, an official source said.
This expansion plan will also include insuring Egyptians living abroad against accidents and sudden diseases. The (...)
A comprehensive new World Bank Report on the status of South Sudan's education notes strong progress, including a doubling of primary school enrollment in just four years, but also some daunting challenges as Africa's newest nation strives to make up lost ground.
According to the report, entitled (...)
The UN refugee agency is concerned about the welfare of refugees in the four camps in Maban County, Upper Nile State, hard hit by heavy rains over the past few days.
UNHCR is working with local authorities as well as other UN agencies to mitigate flooding damage and to put in place emergency (...)
Sudan has handed out more than 500 mining licenses to produce chrome in the border state of Blue Nile, state news agency SUNA said on Monday, shrugging off violence from an insurgency.
Blue Nile borders Sudan's arch foe South Sudan and is like the nearby South Kordofan state, scene of an armed (...)
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Friday said it is increasingly concerned by recent violence in Jonglei state that threatens the important gains made this year in restoring peace and security.
“UNMISS is particularly concerned by the apparent emergence in Jonglei of an armed (...)
South Sudan hopes to resume oil production in September after reaching an interim agreement with Sudan on oil export fees, but it may take a year to return to full capacity, its top negotiator said on Tuesday.
The two countries agreed on Friday on how much South Sudan should pay to export its oil (...)
Unknown gunmen killed a Sudanese employee of the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) in the southern border state of South Kordofan where the army is fighting an insurgency, the WFP said on Sunday.
Two gunmen opened fire on a U.N. car 80 km (50 miles) north of the state capital Kadugli and killed the (...)
Unknown gunmen killed a Sudanese employee of the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) in the southern border state of South Kordofan where the army is fighting an insurgency, the WFP said on Sunday.
Two gunmen opened fired on a U.N. car 80 km (50 miles) north of the state capital Kadugli and killed the (...)
New epidemiological data from two refugee camps in South Sudan show mortality and malnutrition rates soaring above emergency thresholds, announced Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today.
More than 170,000 refugees have made the harrowing journey across the border to escape conflict and food (...)
Sudan's currency fell close to its historical low against the dollar as demand for imported food surged before the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, driving up prices and fueling anger over a severe economic crisis.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, in power since 1989, has avoided an "Arab spring" but (...)
Private Kilimanjaro, a leading, expert provider of private and group climbs up Mount Kilimanjaro, has overseen a group of young Catholics who have successfully scaled Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of Project 2030 to raise funds for a new radio antenna mast in Southern Sudan.
Last year the group visited (...)
Close to 500 people a day are arriving at the camp in Yida. The HCR reports a total of 63,500 refugees in an already overcrowded camp originally intended for 15,000 people. Having walked for days, and sometimes weeks, across the Nuba Mountains fleeing conflict and food insecurity in Southern (...)
The top United Nations relief official in Sudan on Thursday voiced deep concern at reports that more people are fleeing the country's southern regions to escape fighting and severe food shortages, and stressed the need for humanitarian access to all those in need.
There are reports of raids and (...)
Sudan will allow foreign exchange bureaux and banks to trade dollars at a level close to the black market rate, effectively devaluing the pound, a senior banking official said on Friday.
Sudan's economy has been battered since the country lost three-quarters of its oil production to South Sudan (...)
Results for Egyptian expatriate votes in Sudan announced on Friday:
Number of votes for each candidate
Mohamed Morsi: 241
Abdel-Monem Abul-Fotouh: 139
Hamdeen Sabbahi: 112
Amr Mousa: 61
Ahmed Shafiq: 43
Khaled Ali: 7
Mohamed Selim El-Awa: 5
Mohamed Abdel Fattah Fawzy: (...)
The International Red Cross (ICHR) has said that thousands of people in South Sudan have been displaced as a result of the ongoing violence between the country and its northern neighbor Sudan.
Since the beginning of the year, the ICRC has stepped up its efforts to respond to mounting (...)
Even as he apologized for a $2 billion trading loss, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's $23 million pay package was approved by shareholders Tuesday at the bank's annual meeting.
The meeting comes just days after the bank disclosed the massive trading loss, an event that led to the departure of its (...)
أكد د. كرار التهامي الأمين العام لجهاز شؤون السودانيين العاملين بالخارج، أن جهودا تبذل في سبيل استقطاب العقول المهاجرة، ونقل المعرفة والاستثمار إلى الوطن، موضحا أن جهاز المغتربين يمثل النقابة التي تدافع عن حقوق المغتربين وحماية مكتسباتهم . وقد قامت دول العالم بإنشاء وزارات وأجهزة مختصة بتنظيم (...)
Sudan's dispute with its southern neighbour over oil transit fees has created a 6.5 billion pound gap in the country's public finances and caused exports to plunge 83 per cent, the Sudanese finance minister said on Monday.
South Sudan inherited three-quarters of oil production when it gained (...)
Fighting spread further along the Sudan-South Sudan border when soldiers from both countries got into a firefight, killing 22 troops,a southern spokesman said Wednesday.
The fighting on Tuesday at a river that divides the two countries began after a Sudanese soldier shot a South Sudan soldier (...)
Sudanese warplanes have launched an attack on a major South Sudanese town, bombing the capital of the oil-producing Unity border state, according to South Sudan officials.
Bombs were dropped at dawn on Thursday, targeting a strategic bridge on the Rubkhona airstrip just outside Beintu town close to (...)