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My brother was asked to make a donation at the British Museum today and he politely told the lady,"my donation is the Sudan section" 😂
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Literally at the mercy of a billionaire's mood swings
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"The revolution can wait, Barcelona and Man United are playing."
Protesters at Sudan's mass anti-regime sit-in, watch the footie on screens they set up today.
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Protect your energy from people who are committed to misunderstanding you for their own comfort.
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Diaspora on a flight back to a post-Bashir Sudan.
Chanting "you danced for 30 years, today's our dance" - referring to Bashir's infamous tribal stick dance.
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Countries that had pronounced anti-establishment protests this last year:
Lebanon
Chile
Spain
Haiti
Iraq
Sudan
United Kingdom
Russia
Egypt
Uganda
Indonesia
Ukraine
Peru
China/Hong Kong
Zimbabwe
Colombia
France
Turkey
Venezuela
Ethiopia
Brazil
Algeria
Ecuador
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Half a million people fled to Al-Jazeera to escape the violence in Khartoum - and now many are on the move again along with the Madani residents that opened their homes to them.
This is sheer insanity. There is no relief.
Sudan Faces World’s Largest Internal Displacement Crisis, Seen in Wad Madni, AlJazeera state, Circulating on Social Media
متداول على مواقع التواصل لحركة نزوح جديدة من مدينة ود مدني بولاية الجزيرة وسط السودان.
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Internet back on in Sudan, after a government-imposed blackout that started on June 4th.
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Schools & universities in Sudan have been closed for nearly ten full months because of the war.
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Landed in Khartoum just in time to catch Sudanese women protesting against wide-spread violence, limited state protection and normalised sexual harrassment.
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BREAKING: Head of Sudan's National Security and Intelligence Services Salah Gosh announces that President Omar Al-Bashir will step down as head of ruling National Congress Party and that the constitution will NOT be amended to allow for his 2020 re-election.
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BREAKING: Former Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir transferred to Kober maximum security prison, where many dissidents were detained and executed by his regime.
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Received a message from a young Senegalese woman in Dakar that the government is limiting internet access and shooting peaceful protesters in the streets.
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Pretty cool for me & my OG cameraman Salah to go from undercover filming to this...
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A 19 year old Sudanese girl, Noura Hussein, was forcefully married to a man at 16, ran away to her aunt's for 3 years and was tricked by her dad to going back to him. Refusing to consumate their marriage, her husband got his cousins to pin her down while he raped her.
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Doctors in Khartoum today. They're calling it the "White Coat" march.
Many tell me that the revolution is far from over and that they refuse to become complacent.
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Awe-inspiring pics coming out of Sudan today, as planned marches commemorate 40 days - the traditional grieving period - since the June 3rd massacre.
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The war in Sudan has meant universities have been closed for nearly a year.
Please consider donating to help these young women who just left the capital with their elderly parents to start a new life & continue their education abroad.
Code: NEWLIFE24
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Huge crowds chanting in Khartoum tonight:
"The people demand the fall of the regime."
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A timeline of Sudan's war from this day last year
It’s a year since war broke out in Sudan.
This is the moment Sky News reported gunfire and explosions in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on 15 April 2023
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Over half a year of uninterrupted war in Sudan has created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
We verified key testimony & evidence around the latest RSF-led massacre in Ardamata, W Darfur & entire neighborhoods besieged in Khartoum.
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I'm so very happy to share that I'll be joining the
@SkyNews
team later this year as their new Africa Correspondent.
There's A LOT of work to do and this wonderful opportunity has come at the right place, at the right time.
I'm so excited to get started.
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This is disastrous.
Again - aid agencies are walking an impossible tightrope between SAF & the RSF and vulnerable civilians are paying the highest price.
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Protesters today chanting "the revolution has only just begun", in response to the new transitional government formed by the regime old guard.
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Are we surprised? The war literally started in Ramadan.
The Khartoum massacre happened in Ramadan.
Anniversary protest killings happened in Ramadan.
The holy month has never been respected by Sudan's security state and is forever externally marked by their actions.
Lieutenant General Yasir Al-Atta, the Sudanese Army's assistant commander-in-chief, publicly rejected calls for a ceasefire with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group during the holy month of Ramadan.
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Protesters marching across the bridge from Sharq Al-Neel into Khartoum.
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This isn't a condemnation of an inadequate humanitarian response - this is an alarm bell for no humanitarian response whatsoever.
'What's the situation in Port Sudan? How's it looking there?'
Sky's Africa correspondent
@YousraElbagir
has the latest from the port as hundreds of people struggle to escape the ongoing conflict in Sudan
Read more:
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, and YouTube
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One question raised today that is bugging me: why haven't any of the international ships and planes arriving to evacuate people bring in emergency supplies???
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BEGINNER INFORMATION ON THE CONFLICT IN SUDAN - read & share.
We are tired of repeating ourselves. Do your homework.
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Orphans evacuated from Al-Maygoma orphanage in Khartoum to Madani for safety are now caught in the crossfire again.
This is devastating
#المايقوما الناس ماتنسا اطفال الدار في ظل الأوضاع المأساوية دي
#مدني
#السودان
#Sudan_War_Updates
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Sudan's nationwide civil disobedience is currently underway.
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When I was 16, my older sis told me "Sudanese men are spoilt by their mothers' and then by society."
Truer words have never been spoken.
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One of Adjaye's victims "Dunia" is a friend of many years and I watched the light leave her eyes as this man slowly broke her down.
These women have gone through hell and back to share their stories & corroborate their experience - please read.
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From Khartoum: "Everyone feels broken and dejected. You can see it on their faces - on the bus, in the streets. The revolution was stolen from the people."
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Based on the state of people here and what they have managed to share with us, I shudder to think of what's left of Khartoum.
'It's sheer chaos'
Sky's
@YousraElbagir
reports from Port Sudan which has become an evacuation point for thousands of people since fighting broke out in Sudan
Read more:
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Trolling/bullying a young woman living in a warzone is actually the depth of depravity.
Find a shred of decency and leave her alone.
Y’all are still in my mentions. What are you exactly trying to achieve. Make me feel bad?
Driving me off twitter?
Like what’s the end goal?
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Big day in Sudan - ceremonial signing of military-civilian power-sharing agreement is scheduled for today.
It's also the first day of deposed President Omar Al-Bashir's trial.
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Today is the anniversary of the Khartoum massacre - a moment that shook the Sudanese community to its core. Hundreds of men and women, camped out at the pro-democracy protest site for two months, brutally dispersed. Killed, arrested, raped.
A year on & zero accountability.
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Doesn't matter if I'm speaking to another Muslim or not, my vernacular is all: alhamdulilah, mashallah, inshallah.
Normalise it.
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My best friend's dad sent her this old photo of her aunt - and now we're both just sat here revelling in the magic of Sudani beauty.
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An unthinkable choice - leave behind your elderly, sick parents or keep your children in danger? One that so many are facing as thousands flee brutal armed violence Sudan.
Our report:
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I don't think we have ever seen the killing of humanitarian workers & journalists at such an intense scale and with such impunity as we have in Israel's current campaign on Gaza + the spillover in southern Lebanon.
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The last time there was a state-endorsed internet blackout in Sudan was the day following the Khartoum massacre.
This is incredibly concerning, as protests start up at morning break in the capital.
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In a parallel universe, there's peace in Sudan and I open a bubble tea spot called Al Gamar Boba Tea on Nile St.
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Many people are citing Sharia law and saying that sex with her is his "right by marriage" - forgetting that marriage WITHOUT consent is illegitimate in Islam. Also, allowing other males into your bedroom to assist in raping your wife, is far from anything Islam condones.
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Oh and to all the Sudanis that follow me and need to read this...
YOU ARE BLACK.
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I love a good roast and shepherds pie but...English cuisine before Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian??! Am I dreaming?
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In Djibouti and meeting with people who have escaped Khartoum. All of their eyes were wide with horror.
We have not even begun to understand the scale of the tragedy.
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Finally got in touch my intelligence source (a defected NISS officer) he says:
"This is all a planned attack by the RSF, NISS, People's Police militia, People's Security Militia, Defence Miltia, Student Security Militia & AbdelHai Islamist Militia. They were a force of 10,000."
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We have just left Sudan after our last report from the capital.
It's been an insane, painful, educational and inspiring trip from Djibouti to Jeddah to Port Sudan to Omdurman.
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Does anyone remember driving past the old palace entrance and tooting the car horn for the palace guards to do their formal salute/drill?
I lived for that as a kid.
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Nestlé continues its transgressions in the global south
Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds
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Millions are still disconnected in Sudan's ongoing telecom blackout.
So much worry for residents of besieged areas - Madani, Khartoum, Bahri & southern Omdurman - where fighting has been most intense and the RSF have committed mass atrocities + occupied civilian homes.
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UK MPs call for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Sudan and directly name the UAE in their call for all external countries to end funding to the warring parties and provision of arms.
Statement on behalf of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Sudan and South Sudan.
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There is seriously no winning for civilians.
Aid gets into RSF-held areas, it gets looted by the RSF and they starve.
Aid to RSF-held areas gets blocked by SAF restrictions on iNGOs, they starve.
Humanitarian aid meant for IDPs has been looted by RSF at the Ronga Tas Camp in Central Darfur. 😞 Disturbing details revealed in the DNHR ground report:
#HumanitarianCrisis
#Darfur
#RSF
#IDPs
🚫
@NEDemocracy
@Internews
@C4ADS
@PriscillaYagu
…
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I was caught secretely filming a convoy of armed national security trucks and they attacked us. They banged on the car doors with batons screaming "give us the camera!". When I opened the door, one guy grabbed me by the shirt and screamed in my face to hand over the phone.
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Protests in downtown Khartoum today, Al-Soug Al-Arabi.
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Before I sleep; just a reminder that Sudan is now 15 days into a state imposed internet blackout, following a widely rejected military coup.
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So proud to call this incredible woman my big sis.
@NimaCNN
looking fab while accepting her Daniel Pearl Award for Courage & Integrity in Journalism at the
@LAPressClub
.
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It's the tenth day of an internet blackout in Sudan. Ten days.
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It's been officially confirmed that Fathia and her 2 children have passed away.
Please keep them and the other victims in your prayers
Fathia Al-Sanoosi, a Sudanese mother, and two of her children are missing after the
#GrenfallTower
fire.
Please RT.
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Maygoma orphans have been successfully evacuated from Madani.
So worried: millions of children caught
#Sudan
war
Relieved to have evacuated babies & kids from Madani battlelines
Once again on the move, safe now, getting to end of their journey
Grateful for safe passage made possible by cooperation of both sides & support of key partners
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The view in front of the Military Headquarters in Sudan's capital.
Anti-regime protesters are calling on the army to unite with the people and overthrow President Omar Al-Bashir's government.
Army trucks in front of the HQ are yet to take action against the growing crowds.
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All our coverage of the Sudan war in one place.
Explainers, articles, TV reports and visual investigations covering the extreme armed violence in Khartoum & Darfur that has displaced over 6.6 million people since April 15.
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ياخي انا اشتقت لي السودان لمن بقيت ما بخاف من الضب 😂
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Last week, I had to evacuate Khartoum.
After intelligence officers watched my
@Channel4News
report, I was told I could no longer work & was threatened with the serious criminal charge of "inciting hatred against the state"
Successful conviction = life imprisonment or execution
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TW: upsetting content
Sky's
@YousraElbagir
is in Omdurman, Sudan's most populous city.
Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Defence Forces has destroyed the nation's largest street market - but the area isn't totally secure yet.
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Tomorrow marks five full months of war in Sudan.
It still feels like a fever dream: a dizzying, surreal trap of panic.
Praying for our people - for our safety and sanity. Insha'Allah we get through this somehow.
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Thousands of people march to downtown Khartoum today, to commemorate one year since Sudan protests began.
Military have closed off the road in front of the military HQ, where the sit-in camp once was.
No sign of Rapid Support Forces.
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People celebrate on the streets of Port Sudan as Sudani network returns!!
Waiting to hear from other cities...
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In an exclusive sit down at his Dubai home, Hazim Mustafa - the Sudanese businessman embroiled in the "farmgate scandal" - talks us through the events that set in motion the biggest challenge to Cyril Rampahosa's leadership so far.
W/
@vauldicarelse
&
@McGarwen
A businessman has told Sky News he paid $580,000 in cash for 20 buffalo from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's farm in 2019 - but that he didn't initially know who the animals belonged to.
Read the exclusive report from
@YousraElbagir
:
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علامات الساعة
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I wrote a short eulogy for Souq Omdurman - the beating heart of our capital, left in ruins by this war.
Massive trigger warning for my Sudanese friends - very upsetting images of a place we know and love.
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Oh and in case you didn't get it from my videos: I'm back in Sudan and it feels GOOD.
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Im in Abuja and surrounded by a welcomed plurality - women in short shorts, women in hijab. Women wearing whatever tf they want.
Nigeria feels more "liberal" than France right now.
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Of all the deadly anniversaries Sudan's military complex has given us, this one is by far the worst.
One full year of armed violence and devastation - no lulls, no ceasefires, no guarantees of safety or immunity for any volunteers or aid workers.
And it continues.
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Omnia has worked so hard to bravely inform the world of the brutal reality of living in wartime Sudan - despite the deadly implications for herself and her family.
Please donate and help them get to safety as soon as possible. The situation is only getting worse.
I really really hate to do this but unfortunately I’m left with no choice anymore.
Please donate and share to help me and my family escape the war in Sudan!
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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Long live the Chief! Say masha'Allah twice 🧿🧿
Just announced: CNN's
@nimaelbagir
has been promoted to Chief International Investigative Correspondent.
Hard to think of anyone more deserving of this recognition.
Congrats, Nima!✨
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The month and a half spent covering
#SudanUprising
in Khartoum was crazy to say the least - but proud we managed to get the story out again and again. Check out this
#Uncovered
episode for a wrap up of our coverage, including the shocking assault on doctors & medical facilities
This journalist was forced to flee Sudan for reporting on the deadly uprising. This is the story that the government doesn’t want you to see.
Watch
#Uncovered
Episode 3 with
@YousraElbagir
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Verified video of protestors this evening in the centre of Wad Madani, Sudan.
They're chanting "the people want the downfall of the regime."
#مدن_السودان_تنتفض
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Another "millions march" across Sudan. This photo was taken in Al-Obeid, North Kordofan today, where at least four school children were shot in protest on Monday.
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Right: the UN have booked out this entire building in central Port Sudan, including the janitors room, for staff accomodation.
Left: hundreds of people sleeping rough by the port. Only provisions are community donations.
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Things are worse in Sudan than I could even fathom.
Basic infrastructure has collapsed. Electricity is out for large parts of the day and water supply is unstable.
Some of my relatives outside of Khartoum haven't had water for a month.
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Photos from today's anti-regime peaceful protests in Omdurman - the cultural capital of Sudan.
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Sudanese doctors hold sit-ins outside of hospitals across the country today.
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In an exclusive phone interview, Sudanese businessman Hazim Mustafa told us he paid $580,000 in cash to buy 20 buffalo from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's farm in December 2019...and is expecting a refund.
Our story:
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Large banner says - "We won't be governed by the UAE and the directives of El-Sisi - freedom, peace and equality."
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We have finally managed to get access to steady internet to transmit our work - though millions here are still disconnected.
Will be live on
@SkyNews
all day from Sudan to share our reporting.
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Today is the one year anniversary since Sudanese protesters marched to the military HQ compound in Khartoum - and stayed put for nearly two months. Within days, thirty-year dictator Omar Al-Bashir stepped down - followed by his military VP.
Photo by
@Idreesy_
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For those following Sudan news, here are some brilliant folks to follow:
@nafisaeltahir
@hiba_morgan
@matnashed
@BSonblast
@NesrineMalik
@qoga12
@moehash1
@minlayla77
@KholoodKhair
@dalliasd
@MakawiRaga
@reemwrites
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BREAKING: Provincial Minister pre-empts army statement and confirms that President Omar Al-Bashir has stepped down and "consultations" are underway to set up a transitional council.
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Just confirmed with an NGO staff member that there is aid piled up in Adre, Chad - with directives for it not to enter West Darfur.
Sudan's military leader, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, refused to allow humanitarian aid to reach areas controlled by the rival RSF on Sunday.
"This will not happen until we end this war and defeat these criminal rebels and drive them from the homes of citizens, government and service…
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It's Sudanese Independence Day so let's get it:
The flag The face
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