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 …
A surge in the number of emaciated children arriving at a feeding centre in Leer, a muddy rebel-held town in South Sudan's oil-rich Unity State, is fuelling fears that the world's newest nation is on the brink of famine. Food stocks are running low across conflict-ravaged northern regions of the …
DUBAI: A Dubai initiative to provide potable water to five million people facing shortages in Asia and Africa has raised nearly $50 million (36.89 million euros), local media reported on Wednesday. The UAE Water Aid campaign, named Suqia, has exceeded its goal as the funds collected will in fact benefit …
KHARTOUM – The Sudanese legislative and executive bodies are considering a $50 million loan offered by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) to finance development projects of the private sector. Last February, the Sudanese government and the KFAED signed a 13.5 million KWD ($47.2 million) loan agreement to …
Persistent fighting in South Sudan is causing cases of child malnutrition to “skyrocket” as violence disrupts the planting, harvesting and distribution of food, Medecins Sans Frontieres said. About 13,270 children under five years of age have been put on emergency-feeding programs so far this year in Unity, Upper Nile and …
Khartoum - The Khartoum State land authority has made a new compensation offer to inhabitants of old Omdurman neighborhoods whose housing areas will be affected by re-planning. The state ministry of planning said compensation against one meter ranges between SDG 700 to SDG 2343, apart from compensations against removed constructions …
Decades of civil conflict compound the challenges of food insecurity in South Sudan and contribute to persistent, high levels of child malnutrition. As efforts to prevent child malnutrition continue, there is a critical need for strategies that effectively supplement the diets of pregnant women and young children in transitional, highly …
Some four million people in South Sudan are likely to face critical food shortages next month, British aid agencies have warned. But the Disasters Emergency Committee says the cost of mounting an appeal to pay for aid might outweigh donations. South Sudan's president has already warned of "one of worst …
KHARTOUM – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed yesterday a generous contribution from the Government of Canada towards WFP emergency operations in Sudan. The contribution of CAD 5 million (US$4.5 million) will be used to support WFP’s emergency food assistance in Sudan. “We are grateful for the Government …
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it has intensified its response to the cholera outbreak in South Sudan after 63 people have lost their lives and 2,340 people treated for the disease. WHO said steps have been taken to conduct comprehensive investigation following up all contact of the cases. "As …
The increasing demand for agricultural products and the uncertainty of international food markets has recently drawn the attention of governments and agribusiness firms toward investments in productive agricultural land, mostly in the developing world. The targeted countries are typically located in regions that have remained only marginally utilized because of …
Khartoum state witnessed the launch of its first trash recycling complex in Karrari dump site on Tuesday. The recycling plant was inaugurated by Presidential Assistant, Prof. Ibrahim Ghandour and Khartoum State Governor, Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Khidir. Ghandour expressed hope that the complex will bring an end to the spread of …
The illicit trade of wildlife worth as much as $213 billion a year that’s partly funding anti-state militias needs a stronger coordinated response, United Nations Environment Programme Executive Director Achim Steiner said. “The illegal trade in natural resources is depriving developing economies of billions of dollars in lost revenue and …
The deadliest-ever outbreak of the Ebola virus has surged in West Africa after slowing briefly, and the pandemic is now "out of control," according to Doctors Without Borders. Nearly 600 infections and 340 Ebola-related deaths have been recorded in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the most since the virus was …
A week after yet another peace deal was signed for South Sudan, the threat of famine still stalks the world's youngest nation, where more than seven million people are at risk of hunger and disease, a top U.N. official has warned. “Now that the rains have set in, conditions in …
On the 15th of June 2014, the representative of Embassy of Japan, Mr. Hitoshi Nakamura, Deputy Chief of the Mission in Sudan, alongside Mr. Seiichi Koike, Chief Representative of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Sudan, Dr. Babiker Abdalla Ibrahim, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Physical Development, attended …
Butana is a dry plateau in northern Sudan, east of the river Nile. Covering 65,000 square kilometres, less than 10% can be described as ‘woodland’ in the vaguest sense of the word, and even these trees are disappearing rapidly. The Butana Integrated Rural Development Project began in 2008 with the …
Cholera has broken out in the capital of South Sudan where five months of civil war has left thousands homeless and disrupted food supplies and health services, according to the World Health Organization. WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said on Monday nine people were believed to have died of cholera, which …
An Ebola outbreak blamed for 135 deaths in West Africa in the past month was not imported from Central Africa but caused by a new strain of the disease, a study in a U.S. medical journal said, raising the specter of further regional epidemics. The spread of Ebola from a …
India has offered to provide assistance for developing renewable energy resources in Sudan. The talks between the two countries focused on the areas of possible cooperation especially in the development of wind energy, solar energy, biomass and small hydro resources. It was also agreed that Ministry of New & Renewable …
