The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), said in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos that cinema lovers would enjoy discounted […]
Rising floodwaters and heavy rainfall have killed round a hundred humans southern Khartoum’s Alshiqlab neighbourhood. The residents are struggling to cope with the injury triggered via file floods, that inundated over 100,000 houses due to the fact late July. Residents of the neighbourhood are placing up barricades and putting in sandbags to shield themselves from […]
Sudan said on Monday that the demise toll from the country’s floods caused by using heavy seasonal rains has risen to 102. The floods have completely submerged the village of Eltomaniat, north of Khartoum, Col. Abdul-Jaleel Abdul-Rahim, a spokesman for the National Council for Civil Defense, instructed KnowAfrika. According to neighborhood media, the village, which […]
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Khartoum on Monday, marking a year since a transitional power-sharing deal was struck in Sudan. The demonstrators are unsatisfied with the current government and are demanding quickened political reform. It was later reported police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators. The crowds, waving Sudanese flags, gathered […]
Sudan’s public prosecutor Taj Al-Sir Ali Al-Hebr on Monday announced the discovery of a mass grave east of the capital Khartoum. “Investigations have reached advanced stages and the file will be put before the judiciary within two or three weeks,” he told reporters. He added that the grave contains remains of recruits allegedly killed in […]
Thousands chanted anti-military slogans Wednesday to demand justice, freedom, full civilian rule for Sudan and to call for the perpetrators of the mass killing to be held accountable. Sudanese protesters who helped bring down former president Omar al-Bashir returned to the streets to mark the first anniversary of a massacre in Khartoum that left more […]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s undersecretary and ambassador Necva Abbas Kadeh ed-Dem has died from the novel coronavirus in Sudan, local sources said Wednesday. Dem succumbed to the virus at a hospital in the capital Khartoum, the Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported. Sudan has confirmed 4,146 cases and 184 deaths from the virus. Since first appearing […]
Sudan’s prime minister survived an assassination attempt Monday after an explosion went off near his convoy in the capital of Khartoum. Abdalla Hamdok, a longtime economist, tweeted he was “safe and in good shape” following the explosion. Sudanese state TV said Hamdok had been heading to his office when the attack took place. Hamdok also […]