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Society - Demograhics
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 2 May 2006
April 21, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese Islamist Hassan al-Turabi accused some Islamic clerics of misunderstanding Koranic verses on marriages between Muslim women and non-Muslim men, role of women in prayers and their testimony in court. (...)
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Saturday 24 October 2009
By Malek Cook Dwach
October 23, 2009 — I would like to comment on the politics of uncertainty and the prophets of doom whose writings does not contribute to any success to correct the political landscape in the country. I am so much (...)
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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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Wednesday 12 January 2011
By Salma Daoud
January 9, 2011 - At 36, having lived most of my life under a totalitarian regime of the worst kind, I’ve gotten used to my individuality being subdued, my personal rights being violated and my dreams being hijacked. (...)
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Sunday 8 February 2009
February 7, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — Right activists slammed a decision by the Sudanese cabinet to drop an article banning the practice of female genital cutting in the country. The government took its decision in accordance with an Islamic (...)
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Thursday 6 October 2005
Oct 5, 2005 (KASSALA) — Seated at a low table, a young woman wrapped in a pale yellow robe pours coffee for her new husband from a round-bottomed clay jug known as a jabana, her smiling eyes downcast, gold bracelets jangling on her (...)
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Monday 4 August 2008
August 3, 2008 (HALFAYA) — Zakia is a Muslim woman living under Sharia law, stigmatised as a criminal for brewing and selling illicit alcohol to feed the family that her father abandoned outside Sudan’s booming capital. Sudanese Zakia (...)
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Sunday 20 March 2005
KHARTOUM, March 20 (Reuters) - Sudan said 21 people died and at least 6 went blind from drinking illegal alcohol in the past few days and vowed to crack down on its producers in Khartoum and central Sudan.
The Interior Ministry said (...)
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Thursday 3 November 2005
Nov 1, 2005 (KHARTOUM) — Two weeks after a Lutheran church was torched by unknown arsonists in a Khartoum suburb, Sudan’s newly installed “government of national unity” still has not responded to church leaders requesting an investigation (...)
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