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[RFI] A number of high-ranking members of Omar al Bashir's now-dissolved National Congress party (NCP), including its former leader, Ibrahim Gandour, were released by military authorities as demonstrators continued to take to the streets to protest the military coup.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The G7 Ambassadors in Tunisia Monday stressed the need for «a swift return to a constitutional order, in which an elected parliament plays a significant role».
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In a live interview with the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s morning news show, “Let It Be Known,” Cuffie-Jones explained that she just wrapped on directing her first feature film, “Twice Bitten,” scheduled for a fall release and the second season of “Stuck With You,” a hit that’s streaming on the ALLBLK network.
The post Baltimore Writer, Producer and Director Continues to Shine in Hollywood first appeared on BlackPressUSA.
Bir Tawil is a piece of land in the middle of nowhere in Africa that no one wants.
The desert territory of Bir Tawil is sandwiched between Egypt and Sudan, but neither side lays claim to the land.
Legally, Bir Tawil is widely known as “Nobody’s Land” (Terra Nullius) and it’s the only place on the planet with such status.
Border disputes between Egypt and Sudan dating back to 1900s resulted in neither country wanting to claim Bir Tawil.
He wrote on his Facebook page, “that Bir Tawil shall be forever known as the Kingdom of North Sudan.
[Vanguard] Abuja -- The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has said a total of 120 children in Nigeria have been infected with environmental poliovirus.
The two-year, comprehensive feasibility study will assess the proposed project's technical, economic, environmental and social viability
The African Development Bank's Board of Directors has approved a $1.2 million grant to Ethiopia's government to finance a feasibility study for construction of a standard-gauge railway (SGR) link between Ethiopia and neighboring Sudan, the Bank said in a statement sent to Addis Standard.
The grant, from the African Development Fund, the Bank Group's concessional-rate lending arm, would cover 35% of the total estimated $3.4 million cost of the study.
According to the document presented to directors of the African Development Fund, the absence of a regional arterial route linking Ethiopia, Sudan and other countries in the Horn of Africa is a brake on trade, development and regional integration.
The feasibility study's findings will be keenly awaited because its implementation would benefit a large proportion of Ethiopia's 110 million people and 43 million inhabitants of Sudan, as well as populations in the wider region.
The proposed project is aligned with the Bank's Country Strategy Paper 2016-2020 for Ethiopia.
Gifft Hill School kicked off the 2021-2022 school year last week welcoming 175 students in a flurry of excitement at its two campuses.
[The Herald] Correspondent
[Nation] Dr. Doreen Adisa Lugaliki did not know that she was diabetic until after she was admitted at the Aga Khan University with Covid-19.
General Counsel for Lyft Kristin Sverchek speaks with CNN's Poppy Harlow about why the company is taking steps to protect its drivers against potential lawsuits.
The post Lyft Vows To Defend Drivers Sued Under Texas Abortion Law appeared first on The Seattle Medium.
The Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) has said it is awaiting a response from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on replacing the designated candidate for its seat on the Region Eight Regional Democratic Council (RDC), which is expected to pave the way for the body to be finally sworn in after months of delay.
The article LJP awaits word from GECOM on new Region Eight Councillor appeared first on Stabroek News.
National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) confirmed that 63,000 people in the area are hunger-stricken. More than 60,000 people are facing serious starvation in Tana River County. County commissioner Mbogai Rioba said the affected communities have been put into a hunger safety programme and will be considered for a cash transfer.…
In mid-July, a team of divers from several organizations took to the murky waters of Coral Bay harbor to confirm what several local divers have quietly alleged for a long time: the existence of a partially buried ship dating back to the early 1700s that could prove to have great historical significance.
In a stadium named for Arthur Ashe, just feet away from a statue of Althea Gibson, there was a titanic
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Sudan, in northeast Africa, measures about one-fourth the size of the United States. Its neighbors are Chad and the Central African Republic on the west, Egypt and Libya on the north, Ethiopia and Eritrea on the east, and South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of the Congo on the south. The Red Sea washes about 500 mi of the eastern coast. It is traversed from north to south by the Nile, all of whose great tributaries are partly or entirely within its borders.
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What is now northern Sudan was in ancient times the kingdom of Nubia, which came under Egyptian rule after 2600 B.C. An Egyptian and Nubian civilization called Kush flourished until A.D. 350. Missionaries converted the region to Christianity in the 6th century, but an influx of Muslim Arabs, who had already conquered Egypt, eventually controlled the area and replaced Christianity with Islam. During the 1500s a people called the Funj conquered much of Sudan, and several other black African groups settled in the south, including the Dinka, Shilluk, Nuer, and Azande. Egyptians again conquered Sudan in 1874, and after Britain occupied Egypt in 1882, it took over Sudan in 1898, ruling the country in conjunction with Egypt. It was known as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1898 and 1955.
The 20th century saw the growth of Sudanese nationalism, and in 1953 Egypt and Britain granted Sudan self-government. Independence was proclaimed on Jan. 1, 1956. Since independence, Sudan has been ruled by a series of unstable parliamentary governments and military regimes. Under Maj. Gen. Gaafar Mohamed Nimeiri, Sudan instituted fundamentalist Islamic law in 1983. This exacerbated the rift between the Arab north, the seat of the government, and the black African animists and Christians in the south. Differences in language, religion, ethnicity, and political power erupted in an unending civil war between government forces, strongly influenced by the National Islamic Front (NIF) and the southern rebels, whose most influential faction is the
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad Othman Jerandi, on Monday, met with French Ambassador to Tunisia, André Parant, who reiterated France's readiness to stand by Tunisia to help meet the economic and health challenges it is facing.
[Atlantic Council] The world received a wake-up call about the state of Sudanese democracy last week as forces bent on thwarting that progress--allegedly loyal to toppled dictator Omar al-Bashir--attempted a coup against the fragile government.
Muslim Brotherhood, officially Jamiat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun [Arab.,=Society of Muslim Brothers], religious and political organization founded (1928) in Egypt by Hasan al- Banna . Early opposed to secular tendencies in Islamic nations and also anti-British and anti-Zionist, the organization has sought to foster a return to the original precepts of the Quran . It grew rapidly, establishing an educational, economic, military, and political infrastructure. Threatened by the groups popularity and its bombings and other politically motivated violence, Egypts government twice banned (1948, 1954) the organization. It has since existed largely as a clandestine but often militant group, marked by its rejection of Western influences. The Muslim Brotherhood remains strong in Egypt, Syria, Sudan, and other Arab countries, and has organizations in most Islamic nations.
The group was permitted to operate openly in Egypt in the late 1980s and early 90s after disavowing violence in the 1970s, but the government again moved against the group beginning in the mid-1990s. Members have been elected to Egypts parliament as independents, and in 2005 candidates linked to the group won a fifth of the seats in parliament, a record. Egypt subsequently mounted a new crackdown on the group, beginning in late 2006, and in 2007 the nations constitution was amended to ban religious-based political parties.
Candidates linked to the group won almost no seats in 2010 amid government efforts to exclude them from the parliament. The group joined in the 2011 protests that led to President Mubarak s ouster. It subsequently established the Freedom and Justice party (FJP), which aligned itself with other opposition groups. The FJP won the largest bloc of parliamentary seats in the 2011–12 elections, but the parliament was dissolved by the supreme court for election violations in mid-2012. Mohamed Morsi , the FJP presidential candidate, won the June, 2012, runoff election, becoming Egypts first democratically elected president. He was
Sudan on Tuesday refused to sign agreements that will enable Ethiopia to start filling the waters of its $4.6 billion Renaissance Dam from July.
Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said he refused to sign the agreement with Ethiopia due to \"technical and legal issues\" bordering on the dam's environmental and social impacts.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi told the United Nations, UN, in 2019: \"While we acknowledge Ethiopia's right to development, the water of the Nile is a question of life, a matter of existence for Egypt.\"
In spite of calls in Egypt for war if Ethiopia does not stop the construction, it is uncertain what a military reaction by Egypt will be, especially when both countries have no shared borders.
First, all sides need to accept that Ethiopia has a right to use the Nile waters for its development just as Egypt did in building its Aswan High Dam whose ten-year construction was completed in 1970.
Khartoum / New Halfa / El Geneina / El Fasher / Um Rawaba / ED Damer — While Covid-19 continues to spread in Sudan, a number of medical staff in Kassala have been quarantined after having been in contact with suspected cases.
Medics working at the isolation centre of the Khartoum Teaching Hospital embarked on a strike on Wednesday, to add weight to their demands submitted to the Sudanese Ministry of Health earlier this week.
In New Halfa in eastern Sudan's Kassala, medics stay at home in fear of infection, after a large number of their colleagues had to be quarantined because of contact with coronavirus patients.
The Sudan Doctors Committee unit in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur, has warned of an imminent health collapse in the state after a large number of medical personnel has been infected with Covid-19.
Last week, nurses in more than 30 hospitals in Khartoum and the states carried out a 24-hour strike demanding that PPEs be provided.
On Sunday mornings, Pastor Michael Phillips stands before the congregation of Kingdom Life Church in Baltimore, Maryland to deliver messages of hope and inspiration to its multitude of members. But beyond the pulpit of the well-known community-centered sanctuary, the once juvenile offender is on a mission to turn his own missteps into a roadmap to…
[RFI] A Pan-African group of academics and intellectuals have published an open letter in response to the lack of movement by the African Union over the conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia. The letter calls for a political solution and de-escalation of the conflict.
[Egypt Online] Global Finance Magazine named Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Tarek Amer as one of the world's top ten central bankers for 2021.
Sudan on Wednesday proposed that the heads of state of the three countries involved in the spat over the use of the Nile waters directly handle the disagreement to provide a lasting political solution.
Khartoum said the Grand Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia and the mode of filling it should be directly handled by the top leadership of Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt.
A statement issued by the Sudanese Ministry of Irrigation said there had been “conceptual differences” between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on a number of issues related to the Renaissance Dam.
Sudan says the current agreement is supposed to address the filling and operation of the dam, and not the sharing of water among the three countries.
Ethiopia and other Nile basin countries have argued that Egypt and Sudan are beneficiaries of an archaic treaty that gives the two countries the largest chunk of the water.
[Egypt Online] Many key international and regional initiatives will be launched during the first edition of \"Egypt - International Cooperation Forum (ICF): Engaging for Impact\" that will be held on September 8-9 under the patronage of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, the Ministry of International Cooperation said on Tuesday 31/8/2021.
[New Republic] President George Weah has become uneasy with the news of a military takeover in neighboring Guinea on Sunday, September 5, 2021.
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Yesterday, Sudanese state media SUNA, and multiple international news outlets reported that Sudanese authorities seized an Ethiopian airlines cargo of 72 boxes of Russian made weapons that arrived in Khartoum international Airport via Addis Abeba.
