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Sudan shuts down local TEDx conference
Sudan’s security service on Saturday ordered the closure of a community forum, one of the independently run TEDx events held around the world, even though it was non-political, the organiser said. “They unplugged the electricity,” Anwar Dafa-Alla, who founded Sudan’s version of TEDx two years ago, told AFP. He said…
Commuters stranded as Sudan economy nears ‘collapse’
Khartoum’s decaying fleet of public buses is leaving commuters stranded as surging inflation and a sinking Sudanese currency drive maintenance costs out of control, bus operators say. The transport woes are the latest burden inflicted upon Sudanese by an economy which one think-tank said is on the brink of collapse…
Film on Sudan break-up leaves footprint in history
Sudanese-born British film-maker Taghreed Elsanhouri, whose documentary about last year’s partition of Sudan premiered in her homeland on Thursday night, is leaving footprints for history. The award-winning film-maker said she wanted Sudanese to have “ownership” of their history — and by doing so to take responsibility for what happened. “Our…
Sudan blocks YouTube over anti-Islam film
KHARTOUM — Sudan has blocked access to Internet video-sharing site YouTube over the anti-Islam film that has triggered outrage and deadly unrest across the globe, the head of the telecommunications authority told AFP on Wednesday. Ezzeddin Kamel told AFP that the national telecommunications commission imposed the YouTube ban from Sunday…
Sudan rejects U.S. bid to send special forces: official
Sudan has rejected a US request to send special forces to protect its Khartoum embassy after violent protests against an American-made video mocking Islam, the official SUNA news agency said. Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti said Sudan was capable of “protecting its guests in diplomatic representations,” SUNA quoted a ministry…
U.S. urges Sudan to free Oregon-based activist
WASHINGTON — The United States on Tuesday urged Sudan to free a US permanent resident who was taken back into custody moments after a judge freed him on charges related to helping anti-government protests. Rudwan Daud, a citizen of Sudan who lives in the western US state of Oregon with…
Sudan responds to student protests by shutting down university
Administrators at Sudan’s main university have partially shut down the campus, sources at the institution said Sunday, after several Arab Spring-style student protests sparked by high inflation. “Now there is no teaching from today up to the end of Ramadan,” one University of Khartoum source told AFP. He said the…
U.S. condemns Sudan crackdown on protests
WASHINGTON — A crackdown on protestors will not solve Sudan’s political and economic crises, a US official said, condemning the assault and detention of protestors. “Sudan’s economic crisis cannot be solved by arresting and mistreating protesters,” said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. “There have been reports of protestors being beaten,…
Bloomberg reporter deported from Sudan
KHARTOUM, Sudan — A correspondent for international news wire Bloomberg was deported by Sudanese authorities on Tuesday, after being detained while trying to cover the country’s widening protest movement. “They ordered me to leave,” a weeping Salma El Wardany, an Egyptian, told AFP by telephone as she awaited a flight…
Jimmy Carter: Sudan ready to pull troops out of contested region
By Ian Timberlake KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan says it is ready to pull its soldiers out of the contested Abyei region, former US president Jimmy Carter said after meeting Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir on Sunday. “He has notified the negotiators he’s ready to withdraw troops from Abyei, which we believe…
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