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Sudan floods: UN calls for urgent funding, as food insecurity mounts
Sudan has been hit by devastating floods, the worst seen in decades, impacting more than 600,000 households across 17 of the country’s 18 states. With homes destroyed and farmland damaged just ahead of the harvest season, it…
A flood-affected village in Khartoum State, Sudan. UNOCHA
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Sudan alert: Flooding and surging inflation threaten humanitarian assistance
Authorities declared a three-month state of emergency in early September after the worst flooding in 30 years. To date, more than 860,000 people have had houses destroyed or damaged and more than 120 people have died. Some…
Prime Minister Abdalla Adam Hamdok (on screen) of the Republic of the Sudan addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-fifth session. UN Photo/Manuel Elias
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Sudan ready to return to international role but first needs support, Prime Minister says
The African country is continuing on a path of political transition following the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019. “Sudan, with the blood of its martyrs, has gone through decades of tyranny, injustice and…
Aerial view of the capital of Sudan, Khartoum. 2018. WFP/Abeer Etefa
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UN agencies support flood response in Sudan but warn aid stocks ‘rapidly’ depleting
The flooding was triggered by heavy seasonal rains, mainly in neighbouring Ethiopia, which caused the Nile River to rise to nearly 17.5 metres (roughly 57 feet) this past weekend: the highest level in 100 years, according to…
UNAMID, in collaboration with the North Darfur Committee on Women, organised an open day session on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security (file photo). UNAMID/Albert Gonzalez Farran
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Sudan: Darfur deal welcomed by UN chief as 'historic achievement'
Sudan’s transitional Government initialled the deal alongside the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) and Sudan Liberation Movement–Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM), at a ceremony held in neighbouring South Sudan. Determination, courage…
Sudanese refugees flee across the border to escape Darfur violence. Twenty-three-year-old Sudanese refugee fled with her children to Kartafa in Chad in July 2020. © UNHCR/Aristophane Ngargoune
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Violence in Sudan’s Western Darfur forces 2,500 into Chad: UN refugee agency
According to UNHCR, more than 80 per cent of those arriving in the Chadian border town of Adré are women, children and elderly – many of whom have witnessed extreme violence. Attacks, said to have been carried out by armed…
Children collect filtered chlorinated water for drinking purpose from a UNICEF supported water point in Sudan's Blue Nile state, which has been hard hit by the recent flooding. © UNICEF/Shehzad Noorani
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Across Sudan, heavy rains and flash floods destroy houses, wash away crops – UN relief wing
According to an update issued by the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA) on Monday, Khartoum, Blue Nile and River Nile states are among the hardest-hit, while damage has also been reported in El Gezira…
A High-Level Sudan Partnership Conference in Berlin acknowledged young people, especially women and girls, as drivers of change for a democratic, free and peaceful country. UNAMID/Amin Ismail
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$1.8 billion pledged to assist Sudan’s people on the road to peace and democracy
One year after the fall of Sudan’s former longtime ruler, Omar al-Bashir, the country’s dire economic situation, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, continues to present massive challenges and threatens to reverse the…
Demonstrators take to the streets in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum on 11 April 2019. UN Sudan/Ayman Suliman
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FROM THE FIELD: Sudanese women ready to ‘break taboos’ and run for office
Much has already changed for women since the protests: laws restricting freedom of dress, movement and work were repealed, and female genital mutilation was criminalized. The transitional constitution guarantees 40 per cent…
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Security Council extends peacekeeping mission in Darfur, forges new presence in Sudan
Unanimously adopting a twinset of resolutions through its silence procedure, the Council, recognizing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on UNAMID’s drawdown, tacked an extra two months onto its mandate and kept the number…
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Mr. Volker Perthes of Germany - Special Representative for Sudan and Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Volker Perthes of Germany as his new Special Representative for Sudan and Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance…
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Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on Sudan
The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about clashes in West Darfur over the weekend. Escalating inter-communal violence has resulted in scores of deaths and injuries, the displacement of nearly 50,000 people and the…