February 22, 2012, 5:05 AM EST By Salma El Wardany Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — A Sudanese student activist entered the 11th day of a hunger strike to protest his arrest without charge after he participated in a protest at the University of Khartoum, his lawyer and a family member said. Taj Alsir Jaafar, 25, a [...]
Petrodar is a consortium of oil firms operating in South Sudan that includes the national oil corporations of China and Malaysia. Petrodar did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Liu’s ouster comes in the midst of the company’s relocation of its headquarters from Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, to Juba, the capital of South [...]
Eritrea opposition figure feared abducted in Sudan Eastern Sudan is home to tens of thousands of ethnic Eritreans An Eritrean opposition party official has been missing for two days in eastern Sudan and there are fears he may have been kidnapped by Asmara’s security agents, the party alleged on Thursday. Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, a member [...]
South Sudan has threatened to keep the oil pipeline to the Red Sea shut permanently following a failed round of talks on sharing revenues with Sudan. The shutdown is costing the two countries hundreds of millions of dollars a month. Six days of African Union-mediated talks ended Wednesday, with the two sides seemingly farther apart [...]
Khaled Lurla says he would rather go to jail in Israel than be forced to return to his country of birth, Sudan. Lurla, who has been in Israel since 2007, when he fled the fighting in southern Sudan, lives in Tel Aviv with his two children. Sudanese refugees in Israel in 2007. Photo by: Alex [...]
Shelf of books/FILE KHARTOUM, Feb 10 – It’s as if the dust-caked volumes have been sitting on the shelves of Sudan Bookshop for the past half century since some of them were published. Three weeks might pass without a single book being sold, said the shop’s general manager, El Tayeb Mohammed Abdel Rahman, who has [...]
South Sudan has been admitted as a provisional member of the Confederation of African Football (Caf). The move paves the way for it to become the world’s newest footballing nation and the 54th member of Caf. It was inaugurated in a flag-raising ceremony at the Caf Congress in Libreville, Gabon, on Friday. The country, which [...]
Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:59am EST * South Sudan produced about 260,000 bpd of crude in Dec * Disagreements with north over fees a threat to supply By Yeganeh Torbati LONDON, Feb 10 (Reuters) – South Sudanese oil output could remain absent from world markets in the near future, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said [...]
Renard: Determined Related links Teams Sudan Zambia Also see Breaking newswire Experts Transfers 10 Free Bet Radio Sky Sports Twitter Group A winners Zambia take on Group B runners-up Sudan in the first Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final on Saturday afternoon. Zambia enter the tie as firm favourites to progress after an impressive campaign so [...]
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Health: Global Fund against HIV-AIDS resumes activities in Mauritania
Global Fund against HIV-AIDS – The Global Fund for the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will resume activities in Mauritania after ‘a successful negotiation between the government and its partners,’ according to a statement from the Mauritanian ministry of Health. The resumption of funding will enable the country receive substantial resources estimated at about [...]
Mauritanian Football Federation elects new president
2011-08-01 Mauritanian football fans can look forward to new leadership in the sport as the country looks to rebuild its programme. By Mohamed Foily Samba Vall for Magharebia in Nouakchott – 01/08/11 [Mohamed Foily] For the first time in its history, Mauritania’s football federation held a competitive election for new leadership. The Mauritanian Football Federation [...]
Zimbabwe’s image problem: Facebook caning linked to human rights abuse
Zimbabwe clearly has an image problem. When we posted a note on Monday about the caning sentence for a Chiredzi boy who ‘slandered’ a local woman on Facebook, we sincerely thought two cane strokes was not a big deal. Really. For us the important thing was that someone had managed to get some kind of [...]
Kicked out of Zimbabwe, he’s now a top sportsman
I think with playing sport at an elite level comes a responsibility Pundits have touted him as a future Wallabies captain, which would be welcomed by Australian rugby fans who have delighted in his unfulfilled Springboks dream MELBOURNE — A child of evicted Zimbabwean farmers, David Pocock arrived in Australia with a few suitcases and [...]
Mugabe praises coalition government with rivals
Mugabe, who turns 88 on Tuesday, has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, but has shared power with Tsvangirai’s rival Movement for Democratic Change since 2009 under a coalition after violent and disputed elections. Despite the agreement, Mugabe and Tsvangirai have continued to fight over government posts and policy, including Mugabe’s drive to [...]