Reports
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Sudan in the International Spotlight
African Countries Hope to Secure Badly Needed Lending in Paris The IMF is Expected to Decide in June on A massive SDR Issue of $650 Billion, Including $34 Billion for Africa and $24 Billion for Sub-Saharan Africa. Haffiya Abdalla Khartoum — Sudan has been in the international spotlight at a high-level conference in Paris hosted by President Emmanuel Macron in support of its fledgling democratic transition. This important moment is intended to signal Sudan’s reintegration…
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Receiving the Investigation Committee results on 29th Ramadan Events: Important Step Towards Achieving Justice
Al-Sammani Awadallah The Sudanese Armed Forces have taken a courageous step by handing those involved in the killing of the two martyrs Osman Ahmed Badr-ad-deen and Mudathir Mukhtar, who were among the protestors in anniversary of the massacre of 29th Ramadan 2019, besides the Army’s lifting the immunity. President of the Transitional Sovereign Council, Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces, 1st lt. Gen. Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan has handed over to the Attorney General, Taj Al-Sir…
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Al-Burhan: What happened on the anniversary of the sit-in’s dispersal, bothered me
Al-Sammani Awadallah Khartoum — The head of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, confirmed that what happened on the anniversary of the sit-in’s dispersal bothered me and the investigations will prove the perpetrator and he will be punished, and the suspects have been arrested so the hands of the Public Prosecution will interrogate them. During an interview conducted by France 24 in Paris, he demanded the existence of a legal agreement with…
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Promising Start for Paris International Conference to Support Democratic Transition in Sudan
Al-Sammani Awadallah Background Sudan hopes to entice investors and secure pledges to pay off its arrears to the International Monetary Fund at a conference in Paris on Monday, paving the way for wider relief on the external debt of at least $50 billion.Sudan built up huge arrears on its debt, but recently made rapid progress towards having much of it forgiven under the IMF and World Bank’s Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) scheme. If IMF…
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Sudan Opens for Business
Volker Perthes – UNITAMS Chief KHARTOUM – Investing in Sudan may sound like a strange idea, given that the country has long been marred by civil war and inter-communal conflict, crippled by sanctions, and, until recently, ruled by a president facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Nonetheless, the French government has invited Sudan’s political leadership, as well as other world leaders, to an investment conference in Paris on May 17, and…
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L’accord de Juba
Dr. Elgayly Mohamed Abelhamid L’accord de la paix entre l’autorité de transition au Soudan et le Front révolutionnaire soudanais à Juba, la capitale du Soudan du Sud, est un pas dans la bonne direction, car elle a mis fin aux guerres meurtrières entre les parties belligérantes. En effet, cet accord représente un tournant majeur dans l’histoire du processus de la paix au Soudan, car il a abordé les causes profondes menant à la violence armée.…
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Sudan Launches Yellow Fever Vaccination Campaign Among Ethiopian Refugees and Host Communities
Unfortunately, There is no Cure for Yellow Fever at the Moment. It is Only the Symptoms that Can be Treated. Based on WHO’s Classification for Yellow Fever Endemic Countries in Africa, Sudan is Classified As one of 31 high-risk African Countries. Haffiya Abdalla Health authorities in Sudan began implementing yellow fever vaccination campaign activities recently in priority states as part of a broader vaccination campaign against yellow fever, cholera, and polio targeting 100 000 people,…
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Will Sudan Come Out of the Economic Crisis after the Paris Conference?
Al-Sammani Awadallah The transitional government is anticipating the launching of the Paris Conference as the transitional government is dreaming high that the conference will lead to attracting foreign investments. The conference is supposed to address, among other things, debt issues in an effort to stabilize the country and to repair an economy battered by years of U.S. sanctions and government mismanagement during Omar al-Bashir’s 30-year rule. France will host the said international conference with private…
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Islamic legislation in Ramadan: Contributions to achieving Sustainable Development in the Islamic world
Shawgei Salah Ahmed Islam is the second largest human religion currently on the planet. According to a study conducted in 2015, Islam has 1.8 billion followers and constitutes about 24% of the world’s population. Most Muslims are either from two sects: Sunnis (80-90%, roughly 1.5 billion people) or Shiites (10-20%, roughly 170-340 million people). Islam is the predominant religion in Central Asia, Indonesia, the Middle East, South Asia, North Africa, the Sahel and some other…
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Anti-Corruption Commission: Better Late than Never
Muawad Mustafa Rashid The social media outlets were overwhelmed in the recent days about the joint meeting of the Sovereign Council and the Council of Ministers that endorsed the anti-corruption commission. The joint meeting also confirmed the continuation of the Empowerment Removal and the Recovery of Public Funds Committee, with full support to conduct its mission in a professional manner. The joint meeting’s objective was to endorse the anti-corruption commission bill and at the same…