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Sudanese Armed Forces: The Birthplace Of Individual Sports Heroes
(MENAFN- Sudanow Magazine) By: Fahmy Alsayed PortSudan, (Sudanow) - At the (1986) Olympics, the Sudanese runner and legend Khalifa Omer was chosen to carry the Olympic torch, signaling the start of the historic global event. During his journey...
Senegal and Sudan Advance After Tense Goalless Draw
Both Senegal and Sudan secured their places in the quarter-finals of the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship after playing out a tense goalless draw in Zanzibar. The result confirmed Sudan as Group D winners on goal difference, with the...

Super Eagles end CHAN campaign with a win as Sudan hold Senegal

Sudan army torturing people to death, claims rights group
A prominent Sudanese human rights group has accused the country's army and security forces of torturing people to death and operating "execution chambers". The Emergency Lawyers group said it had documented hundreds of arrests in the capital...

Sudan's RSF shells famine-hit camp in Darfur, killing at least 17: Report
Sudanese paramilitary forces shelled the besieged North Darfur capital, El-Fasher, on Saturday, killing at least 17 civilians and injuring 25 others, reported news agency AFP. According to the report, these figures only account for those who...

A Spokane agency celebrates three years of helping refugees
The refugee agency Thrive Spokane is celebrating three years of helping people from other nations assimilate here. Thrive began by helping people who fled the war in Ukraine. But it has helped people from more than a dozen nations, some of whom...

Sudan seeks wider support for ‘forgotten war'
Sudanese Ambassador to Korea Amira Agarib urged greater global unity to address Sudan’s “forgotten war,” appealing to South Korea for continuous humanitarian and political support. Sudan’s civil war began in April 2023 due to a power struggle...

Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Balewa aren’t Nigeria’s founding fathers — Pastor Adefarasin
Preaching on Sunday, House on the Rock Senior Pastor Paul Adefarasin has argued that Nigeria’s celebrated nationalist leaders cannot be regarded as its true founding fathers. Instead, he said the country was stitched together in Whitehall...

Sudan paramilitary shells famine-hit Darfur camp
A paramilitary fighting against Sudan’s military shelled a famine-stricken displacement camp in the western region of Dafür Saturday, killing at least 31 people, including seven children and a pregnant woman, a medical group said, in a second...

Humanity in dire need in Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Haiti
About 400 million children (one in five) live in or are fleeing war. Photo: File On 19 August 2003, a bomb attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, killed 22 humanitarian aid workers, including a United Nations special representative of the...

How Russia is quietly trying to win over the world
Juliana GragnaniEditor, BBC Global Disinformation Unit Maria KorenyukBBC Global Disinformation Unit ShareSave Listen to Juliana read this article Javier Gallardo likes to start his morning watching a classical music programme on television - it is...

Sudan 4-0 Nigeria: A Wake-Up Call That May Still Go Unheard
August 17, (THEWILL) — Nigeria’s hopes of advancing in the 2025 African Nations Championship came to a halt on Tuesday, following a 4-0 defeat to Sudan in Amaan Stadium, Zanzibar City. Having already lost their opening game to Senegal, the...

For enduring normalization, Israel must back democracy in Sudan
As the conflict in Sudan rages on, reports have emerged that the commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, is seeking to finalize normalization with Israel in exchange for political and military support....

Doctors decry collapsing health system in Sudan
Doctors in Sudan have warned of a looming humanitarian disaster in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, as hospitals struggle with severe shortages of medicine amid the ongoing war. In a statement on Tuesday, the Sudan Doctors Network said...

Nigeria vs Congo, African Nations Championship 2025 Live Streaming Online in India: How To Watch NGA vs CGO Football Match Live Telecast on TV & Score Updates in IST?
Nigeria National Football Team vs Congo National Football Team African Nations Championship 2025 Live Streaming: Nigeria will be facing Congo in a Group D clash in the African Nations Championship this evening with Nigeria struggling with two...

Inside the Nuba Mountains and the alliance reshaping Sudan’s civil war
For people previously targeted by the RSF, it is hard to square the brutal past with the current reality which came only shortly after the RSF carried out a campaign of indiscriminate killing in the Nuba Mountains. Many witnesses or victims of...

Sudan Talks in Switzerland: US Push or Testing the Waters?
Sudanese politicians, military officials and analysts are abuzz over reports of secret meetings in Switzerland between a senior US presidential adviser and the leaders of the country’s rival forces, fueling speculation Washington is testing the...

Senegal face Sudan in battle for top spot
A clash between Nigeria Super Eagles and Sudan the Nile Crocodiles on August 12, 2025. [Cafonline] Leaders Sudan and defending champions Senegal will battle on Tuesday for top spot in Group D at Amaan International Stadium in Zanzibar. Both teams...

Syrian figure touts new anti-Sharaa ‘parallel army’ in UAE media
Al-Sheikh claims his armed force will operate parallel to the Syrian army [Getty] An Emirati news outlet has promoted claims of a new "parallel army" in Syria, presented as an alternative to the Syrian armed forces and the government of Syrian...

AFRICA/SUDAN - Khartoum Prime Minister's Appeal: "Stop Sending Colombian Mercenaries to Sudan"
Monday, 18 August 2025 Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – "Stop sending Colombian mercenaries to fight in Sudan." Sudanese Prime Minister Kamal Idris addressed this appeal in a video message to the authorities and people of Colombia. "The Spanish-speaking...