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- Wednesday 2 August 2006
Aug 2, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — At the crowded Beauty Queen parlour in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, beautician Selma Awa says she just cannot understand why so many of her clients want to get their skin lightened.
"One hundred percent of women (...)
- Wednesday 7 March 2012
March 6, 2012 (JUBA) – More than five people have been killed and more wounded over a land dispute in Juba. The incident pushed President Salva Kiir to deploy security forces to stop the violence and maintain security and calm in the (...)
- Wednesday 13 February 2013
February 13, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan on Wednesday launched plans for compulsory civil registration at childbirth, in an attempt to count and account for every South Sudanese citizen.
The exercise was launched at a seminar in the (...)
- Monday 9 April 2007
Opheera McDoom is the Reuters correspondent in Sudan where she was one of few resident foreigners when she began her assignment three years ago. In the following story, she describes the elaborate rituals that marked her wedding in (...)
- Wednesday 16 July 2003
Wirral Globe (UK)
July 16, 2003
A WIRRAL-born charity worker died when a Boeing 737 crashed in the Sudan last week.
In all, 116 passengers and crew perished in the tragedy on July 8. Just one person, a two-year-old boy, survived the (...)
- Monday 10 August 2009
By Roba Gibia
August 9, 2009 – The current unfolding events of flogging women in Khartoum reminds me when I was in primary four, we were taught Arab history prior to the coming of Islam, and it was one of the outrageous histories with (...)
- Monday 13 July 2009
July 12, 2009 (WASHINGTON) — A number of Sudanese girls including Southerners were arrested by police last week on charges that they violated the public dress code, one of them told Sudan Tribune today. Photo showing Lubna Hussein’s (...)
- Tuesday 10 May 2011
May 9, 2011 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan is set to launch a high-tech civil registry project on 16 May, targeting vital events of 16 million of the country’s population as well as foreign residents Photo taken from the website of Sudan’s civil (...)
- Tuesday 16 May 2006
May 15, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — A Sudanese Anglican priest has been arrested on charges of kidnapping a Muslim woman who came to his church wanting to convert to Christianity, clergymen said on Monday.
Police detained the Reverend Elia (...)
- Friday 28 July 2006
"Because I relate therefore I am"
-African philosophy
By Mading de Ngor*
July 27, 2006 — I trace my ancestry to the 18th ancestor. This is how it is in much of Africa. When a child is born, he must learn to count to the last (...)
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