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- Sunday 4 April 2004
KHARTOUM, April 4 (AFP) — Four men convicted of armed robbery in Sudan’s war-torn western Darfur region have been sentenced to amputation of their right hands and left legs, a newspaper said Sunday.
The criminal court in Nyala, capital (...)
- Wednesday 27 January 2010
By Philip Thon Aleu
January 26, 2010 (BOR) – A religious leader in Bor, where modern weddings and church marriages are unpopular, says he is looking forward to "biblically covenanted" bonding to replace traditional union of couples. (...)
- Thursday 22 April 2010
April 21, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese authorities have reportedly blocked users’ access to the YouTube site over a video posted this week showing electoral staff in East Sudan filling out the ballots and putting inside the boxes. (...)
- Thursday 13 April 2006
Translated by John Akec
April 11, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — In a lecture entitled "The Role of Women in Just Governance" which was delivered by the leader of the opposition Popular Congress Party, Hassen Al Turabi, at the headquarters of Umma (...)
- Monday 7 April 2008
By James Gatdet Dak
April 3, 2008 (Malakal) – The 32nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the Sudan which convened in Malakal from March 30 to April 2, 2008 resolved to re-unite the Church and decentralize its (...)
- Wednesday 27 February 2008
February 26, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese justice today executed five men from Nile state in Khartoum rejecting demands to convert the death penalty sentences to prison sentences.
The executed men, from the village of al-Bouga, were (...)
- Sunday 11 March 2007
March 10, 2007 (UNITED NATIONS) — A U.N. women’s forum urged the world on Friday to ban female genital mutilation and forced marriages.
The Commission on the Status of Women passed by consensus two resolutions on the issues following (...)
- Saturday 17 June 2006
June 16, 2006 (ADDIS ABABA) — The Africa Union on Friday urged its member states to put an end to the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), saying the ritual traumatised millions of girls and women on the continent.
"We should (...)
- Sunday 20 April 2008
By Isaac Vuni
April 19, 2008 (JUBA) — The arrangement for Installation of the Archbishop-Elect are completed as twenty Episcopal Church of the Sudan (ECS) Bishops and their wives have already arrived in Juba, the chairman of (...)
- Friday 5 March 2010
By Ngor Arol Garang
March 4, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) state minister in the Elias Nyamelel Wakos, has come out publicly to condemn closure of Bakhita and Liberty FM radios by central Equatoria State (...)
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