According to health ministry figures only a couple of hundred people have been infected by the Covid-19 coronavirus in Sudan's Darfur region but reports from this remote and troubled part of the country tell a different story.
For several weeks now, unusually large numbers of people have...
Blog archive: Sudan
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13th June 2020
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26th May 2020According to official figures, there are now almost 4,000 Covid-19 cases in Sudan – a third of them recorded during the past week. Those are the ones known to the authorities but health minister Akram Ali al-Tom readily acknowledges that the real number is higher. "The virus is running in...
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2nd May 2020Sudan's Covid-19 outbreak is still in its early stages but growing fast. Confirmed cases have more than doubled over the last five days and now total 533. The vast majority of these infections have occurred in and around the capital, Khartoum, where the authorities imposed a three-week...
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18th April 2020The total of known Covid-19 infections in Sudan has more than doubled since yesterday. Following the latest batch of test results there are now 66 confirmed cases. So far, 10 people have died. These are small numbers in comparison with many other countries but there are signs that the spread of the...
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6th February 2019The British government has refused a visa for a Sudanese writer who was due to spend a term at Durham University as a Visiting Fellow. Hammour Ziada, who writes in Arabic, is the author of two published novels and two collections of short stories. His most recent work, Shuq al-Darwish ("The...
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29th January 2017Donald Trump ended his first week as president by signing an executive order that means citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen will not be allowed to enter the United States. Although the travel ban is one of a series of measures aimed – according to Trump – at "...
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18th April 2015Lookalikes: Abozer Mohamed of Maarij (left) and Abozer Elmana Elligai of GNRD (right) Following the revelation that it is at the centre of a $13 million deleted, along with those of other GNRD staff, shortly after Norwegian media began taking an...
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9th December 2010Readers of this blog may recall an incident last June when Sudan's Public Order Police, whose role includes enforcing "morality", arrested a couple of dozen people at a fashion show in Khartoum. Yesterday, seven of the male models were convicted of "indecency" – for wearing...
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13th July 2010The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has protested at the suspension of of the Sudanese daily newspaper, al-Intibaha. Last week the paper received a phone call from the Security and National Intelligence Service saying it had been suspended indefinitely and its latest edition would...
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27th June 2010About two dozen people were arrested in Sudan on Thursday night as they emerged from a fashion show. Those arrested included male and female amateur models as well as make-up artists and others who had provided the clothes. So far, there has been no official explanation from the Public Order...
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17th May 2010Egyptian security forces shot and killed another Sudanese migrant on Saturday night as he tried to cross the border into Israel. Adam Ali Mohamed, 38, was hit three times after reportedly ignoring a call to stop. More than 60 migrants have died at the hands of border guards since...
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21st April 2010Top-heavy: the ill-fated Salam Boccaccio ferry Four years after the Red Sea ferry, Salam Boccaccio, sank with the loss of more than 1,000 lives, there are at last signs of a crackdown on unseaworthy vessels in the area. Surprise inspections of...
