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- Friday 18 May 2012
May 17, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A court in the Sudanese capital Khartoum has sentenced an unidentified woman to be executed by stoning for committing the “crime of fornication” under Islamic Shariah laws, local newspapers reported on Wednesday. (...)
- Tuesday 23 October 2012
October 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The head of Sudan’s main clerical authority, the Religious Scholars Committee (RSC), has publicly advocated girl child marriage, drawing the ire of women activists rights who called for an immediate ban (...)
- Monday 23 April 2012
April 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A pastor in the Sudanese capital Khartoum confirmed that a group of Islamic fundamentalists attacked his church over the weekend and set it on fire. FILE - A man prays during Easter Sunday service at (...)
- Wednesday 6 March 2013
March 5, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan a-Bashir came under an unusual attack from a pro-Salafist newspaper which described him as a liar and accused his government of corruption. An unidentified Islamic Group (...)
- Wednesday 25 July 2012
July 24, 2012 (KHARTOUM) - Earlier this month a Sudanese woman was found guilty of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning by a court in the capital Khartoum, a regional women’s rights group said Monday.
SIHA Network reported that (...)
- Wednesday 6 February 2013
By Magdi El Gizouli
February 6, 2013 - The allies of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) recently welcomed the professional Moslem cleric turned politician Yusif al-Koda in their Kampala habitat. Yusif and the Chairman of the Sudan (...)
- Friday 16 November 2012
November 15, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The leader of Sudan’s Islamist opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP), Hassan Al-Turabi, issued a letter on Thursday distancing his party from the Islamic Movement (IM) conference being held in Khartoum, (...)
- Friday 8 February 2013
February 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The secretary general of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N), Yasir Arman, has cautioned against Islamist movements saying they represent a threat to African diversity and called for the (...)
- Monday 15 October 2012
October 14, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The leader of Sudan’s opposition National Umma Party (NUP), Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi, warned on Sunday that the country is growing increasingly polarized in terms of core political issues and ways of pursuing (...)
- Sunday 11 November 2012
November 10, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s presidential assistant, Nafe Ali Nafe, has claimed that the government is in possession of documents proving that opposition parties are against the implementation of Islamic Shaira laws and trying (...)
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