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Tuesday 11 December 2007
December 10, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — When the punishing Sudanese heat cools in late afternoon, Hiba Jiha strips naked, wraps herself in a blanket and sits on top of a burning hole in the ground to smoke her skin to silky perfection. Piles (...)
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Tuesday 5 October 2010
By Manyang Mayom
October 4, 2010 (JUBA) — Prostitution in Southern Sudan is on the rise. Juba, the capital city of the semi-autonomous region and a territory belonging to the indigenous Bari tribe is hit by sexual workers and growing (...)
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Saturday 25 February 2006
Feb 24, 2006 (MALAKAL) — A certain Mr Tombe was caught having an intimate relation with a goat belonging to a Mr Alifi at Hai Malakal — Upper Nile State, southern Sudan — on February 13. Tombe was ordered to pay the goat’s dowry and take (...)
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Thursday 5 August 2010
August 4, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — A Sudanese court has sentenced 19 men to flogging in public and a fine of 1000 Sudanese pounds (approximately 400 US dollars) for breaching the country’s morality code by wearing women clothes.
The alleged (...)
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Sunday 2 November 2008
By Philip Thon Aleu
November 1, 2008 (BOR TOWN) – Residents of Lang-baar, a Bor Town suburb, were shocked on Friday evening following a tragic killing of one year old baby by a step mother whose self-claimed insanity has been (...)
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Friday 11 May 2007
By Isaac Vuni
May 10, 2007 (JUBA) — Sudanese women have agreed that undemocratic practices are still dominating the internal life in the political parties in the country. Yesterday during the national conference of Sudanese women in (...)
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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 (...)
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Friday 26 March 2010
March 25, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir today warned that his government will have zero tolerance for those who drink or deal in alcoholic drinks saying they will be whipped under the Islamic Sharia’a (...)
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Saturday 3 September 2005
By Amil Khan.
Sept 2, 2005 (Omdurman) — Brandishing spears and flags, around 1,500 Sudanese gathered at the site of the historic Battle of Omdurman on Friday to commemorate warriors who died trying to fend off British domination of (...)
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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 (...)
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