President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan with an iron fist for 30 years, was on Thursday overthrown in a coup by the armed forces which announced a two-year period of military rule to be followed by elections. In an address on state television, Defence Minister Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf said Bashir, 75, was under […]
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Troop presence reinforced as Sudan sit-in continues for the fifth day
Soldiers were heavily deployed around a sit-in outside Sudan’s defence ministry on Wednesday, as several thousand protesters danced, sang and chanted slogans calling on President Omar al-Bashir to step down. The demonstrators have been camped since Saturday outside the compound, which also includes Bashir’s residence and the national security headquarters, in an escalation of protests […]
Protest leaders dismiss Sudan emergency, demand Bashir quit
Sudanese protest leaders on Saturday dismissed veteran President Omar al-Bashir’s declaration of a state of emergency and vowed to keep up nationwide demonstrations until his “regime is overthrown.” Bashir’s three-decade rule has been rocked by two months of protests that a deadly crackdown has failed to suppress and on Friday he imposed a nationwide state […]
Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhino, dies aged 45
NAIROBI: Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, has died in Kenya at the age of 45, after becoming a symbol of efforts to save his subspecies from extinction, a fate that only science can now prevent. When Sudan was born in 1973 in the wild in Shambe, South Sudan, there were about 700 of […]
AFP and Reuters journalists detained covering Sudan protests
Journalists working for Agence France-Presse and Reuters were among three reporters being held by Sudanese authorities on Thursday a day after they were arrested covering demonstrations against rising food prices that were dispersed by police. Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali, a 51-year-old who has worked for AFP in Khartoum for nearly a decade, was covering the […]