Notwithstanding slower global growth and lingering impacts of recent catastrophic floods, private sector activity, outside the oil sector, has been supported by a relative return to peace, and higher government spending. Nevertheless, the economy is estimated to have contracted by 0.4 percent in FY23/24, reflecting drags from oil production. Supported …
Kutum Locality — Three people died when a gold mine collapsed in the area of Abdel Shakur in Kutum locality on Saturday. An eyewitness told Radio Dabanga that Haroun Khater Adam, Adam Mohamed Adam, and another man, whose identity could not be ascertained, were inside the pit when it collapsed. …
As of 3 May, 4,127 suspected cases of measles have been reported in Sudan, with 2,336 cases confirmed. The total number of deaths in 2015 has risen to 35, with recent fatalities reported in East Darfur. East, West, and North Darfur account for 25 of the 35 reported deaths (71.4 …
The funds will help WFP prevent hunger and treat malnutrition among the most vulnerable people in Sudan. WFP will use the contribution to provide life-saving food assistance to more than 152,000 displaced people in West and South Darfur for two months, as well as to more than 193,000 newly displaced …
KHARTOUM - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a contribution of €9 million (US$9.7 million) from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO) to its emergency operations in Sudan. The funds will help WFP prevent hunger and treat malnutrition among the most vulnerable people …
Khartoum — As of 3 May, 4,127 suspected cases of measles have been reported in Sudan, with 2,336 cases confirmed. The total number of deaths in 2015 has risen to 35, with recent fatalities reported in East Darfur. East, West, and North Darfur account for 25 of the 35 reported …
Khartoum - Constitutional and structural reforms will be undertaken by the Ministry of Health in the coming phase to strengthen the health environment and food control departments in all the state facilities. Minister of Health Bahar Idriss Abu Garda praised the health environmental and food control staff in the centre …
Three out of the five remaining rhinos in the world are found in Sudan, where they are heavily protected against poachers. The possibility of the three (Sudan, 42; Fatu, 15; and Najin, 25) procreating naturally is doubtful as they had failed severally even when aided. Though the three northern white …
Juba — Skyrocketing inflation, conflict and collapsed markets are pushing people in South Sudan to breaking point as the political deadlock enters its 16th month and families face a second 'lean season' since fighting began, international agency Oxfam warned today. "What we're seeing now is families that have spent the …
More than three million of the world's poorest people have been forced from their homes, land and jobs over the past decade by World Bank-funded projects, an investigation showed on Thursday as the global lender vowed to review its policies. The World Bank, which aims to end extreme poverty, has …
Khartoum - During the period 4-9April 2015, a team from the Sudan Country Office of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the project management staff of Darfur Water Project (DWP) for Peace Building and Conflict Resolution, undertook a Mission to Darfur to supervise the project. The team was joined by …
Khartoum — The Sudanese Ministry of Minerals announced a temporarily halt to issuing licenses to gold mining companies in the northern Sudanese Rive Nile state on Tuesday. A committee formed by the Minerals Ministry recommended a review of the environmental deterioration resulting from the toxic waste produced by traditional mining …
Khartoum – The meeting of the water ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan began yesterday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, with the aim of adopting an advisory office to conduct studies on the Renaissance Dam being built by Ethiopia on the River Nile. A consultant office of two global …
Khartoum – Sudan has been Polio free since 2009, President Omar Al Bashir announced, saying it is backed by international and regional organisations. The National Congress Party presidency candidate pledged to make Sudan free from disabling illnesses and provide basic health services for wounded and disabled citizens in need. He …
Khartoum - UNICEF (Sudan) has announced the arrival of more than two million doses of measles vaccines on Tuesday, due to the outbreak of the disease recently in different parts of the country. UNICEF representative in Sudan unexplained that due to an outbreak of measles in the past two months …
A new US $119.2 million programme in the Sudan has been designed to increase food security, and improve incomes and climate resilience for pastoralist communities by strengthening their access to markets and technologies. Amira Daoud Hassan Gornass, Permanent Representative, the Republic of the Sudan to the United Nations Food and …
This communication reports on the Mycetoma Research Centre of the University of Khartoum, Sudan experience on 6,792 patients seen during the period 1991–2014.The patients were predominately young (64% under 30 years old) males (76%). The majority (68%) were from the Sudan mycetoma belt and 28% were students. Madurella mycetomatis eumycetoma …
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan signed a declaration of principles on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Monday in a meeting of the trio's top leadership in Sudanese capital Khartoum. In a ceremony aired on live television, Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam …
Khartoum - President Abdul Fatah el- Sisi of Egypt and Prime Minister Haile Desalgn of Ethiopia are set to arrive in Khartoum today for the signing of the Renaissance Dam historic accord between the Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia, slated for March 23. Mutaz Musa, Chairman of the Ministerial Board for …
Over a third of hospitals and clinics in developing countries have nowhere for staff or patients to wash with soap, and almost 40 percent have no source of water, according to a WHO-backed international review published on Tuesday. The report, by sanitation charity WaterAid and the World Health Organization (WHO) …
Khartoum - An agreement on Health Cooperation including all the fields of health work, exchange of information and combating diseases and epidemics was signed between Tanzania and Sudan on Wednesday at the Federal Ministry of Health. The agreement, which was signed the Federal Minister of Health, Bahr Idriss Abu-Garda and …
