CAIRO, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The prolonged civil conflict in Sudan has plunged 17.7 million people into acute hunger, which requires robust fundraising and other urgent actions to avert an impending humanitarian catastrophe, said a senior official from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
While serving in the Egyptian army in the Sudan, Nasser met three fellow officers—Zakariyyā Muḥyi al-Dīn (Zakaria Mohieddine), later vice president of the United Arab Republic;ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm ʿĀmir, later field marshal; andAnwar el-Sādāt, who would succeed Nasser as presiden...
KHARTOUM, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Signs of an imminent breakthrough to the current crisis in Sudan emerged Tuesday as a civilian government is expected to be formed soon following the ouster of former President Omar al-Bashir. After a round of consultations among major political forces in Sudan,...
Sudanese refugees in neighboring countries need assistance just as much as those in Sudan. They also need greater protection and enforcement of international law,” Abdulbari explained. Nonetheless, aid groups have advocated for more support and engagement from the U.S. government, particularly ...
Fashoda Incident, (September 18, 1898), the climax, at Fashoda, Egyptian Sudan (now Kodok, South Sudan), of a series of territorial disputes in Africa between Great Britain and France. The disputes arose from the common desire of each country to link up its disparate colonial possessions in...
Part of this process was the agreement, in 1953, to terminate British rule in Sudan by 1956 in return for Cairo's abandoning of its claim to suzerainty over the Nile Valley region. In October 1954, Britain and Egypt concluded an agreement on the phased evacuation of British troops from ...
In May 1961, Sir William Luce took up office as the new political resident in the Persian Gulf. 1 He was not a career diplomat but had served in the Sudan Political Service for 26 years, before being seconded to the Colonial Office as Governor of Aden from 1956 to 1960. 2 The Foreign...
“People cope with difficulties in life in different ways, so we don’t try to downplay what people are going through," Bala explained. “The feeling of being able to save a life at the end of it is actually very rewarding. That’s why our negotiators keep doing this year after year...
“human” in “humanitarian.” That’s what we are all about,” said Ms. Afeyan. She then highlighted the inspiring stories of Aurora LuminariesDr. Tom Catena, who provides medical aid to the underserved population of Nuba Mountains in Sudan, andSyeda Ghulam Fatima, who works to free bonded...
The three main contributors to worsening food shortage in Sudan are the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, internal economic policies and weak agricultural production, according to Sudanese economic experts. "It is known that Sudan gets more than 90 percent of its needs of wheat from Russia and Ukraine,"...