AIRO: A total of 21 Egyptians, eight Syrians and two Sudanese were arrested along the western and southern borders of Egypt Friday, Youm7 reported.

The weather has turned, and with it Europe’s response to the refugee crisis. Summer brought hope, in the shape of Angela Merkel’s promise that no Syrian refugee would be turned away from Germany.

Sudan, SPLM-N kick off second informal meeting in Germany

January 22, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - Informal talks between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement - North (SPLM-N) have started in the German capital, Berlin on Friday.

Dear Prof Baraka, Dr Huda Babikir and all members, 

We have received with absolute dismay, the news that Nafie A Nafie has been honoured in an international medical conference in Sudan hosted by SMSB  in partnership with Sudanese Psychiatry Association-UK  (SPA-UK) and BSAMS.

Subject: drinking water warning from british embassy

this notice just went out to British Embassy

folk. Don't drink the tap water.

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Dear All,

As part of new health & safety procedures, TWS staff recently took

water samples from all our residential properties to screen in the UK

"There are many people coming in everyday with many different diseases and there is no medicine, by the end of the day you would have treated 40 to 50 patients," said Zahir Babiker, a doctor working at Yabous hospital, which is housed in a makeshift straw-thatched hut.

January 13, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - Secretary General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N) Yasir Arman said Sudan has reached a point where it has no options but change or collapse.

He pointed in a conference call with Sudanese activists in Europe and the United States Wednesday that the country’s crisis has been further complicated, saying “Sudan is facing two options:

Sudan announces date for Darfur referendum

January 13, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - A referendum on Darfur administrative status will be held on 11 April where only the region’s residents will take part in the vote.

January 12, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - Secretary General of the rebel Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N) Yasser Arman has disclosed moves by Germany to host a meeting for the Sudanese opposition in Berlin to discuss the pre-dialogue meeting.

In a message sent to the leaders of the “Sudan Call” charter and the Reform Now Movement (RNM) and seen by Sudan Tribune, Arman said the German moves have not yet

Source: Reuters - Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:15 GMT

Author: Reuters

KHARTOUM, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Six people have been killed in three days of unrest in Sudan's Darfur region, a local official said on Monday, as a joint U.N. -African Union peacekeeping mission to the area urged the government to contain and investigate the violence.

January 9, 2016 (NYALA) - A secret conference of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees leaders in Darfur has rejected a government plan to liquidate the camps for the internally displaced on the grounds that their areas of origin were still unsafe.

The participants considered the return to their original villages and localities before the normalization of the situation and the provision of peace therein as "a semblance of suicide".

Deputy chairman of the IDPs and refugees association Adam Abdallah said leaders of refugees and IDPs from all Darfur’s five states camps had met last week in Kalma Camp , 15 km East of Nyala , capital of South Darfur State, to discuss what they called "Government propaganda" about the return of refugees and IDPs and the closure of the camps.

LARKANA: The execution of 47 people, including scholar Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr, by Saudi Arabia has raised regional as well as international concerns. The action of Iranian protestors in attacking the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran in response to Al-Nimr’s execution resulted in the recall of diplomats by Saudi Arabia from Iran, followed by its Arab allies Kuwait, Bahrain and Sudan doing the same.

This issue has arisen at a time when a road map to peace had been established in Syria and a ceasefire had been called in Yemen. Across the Middle East, both Iran and Saudi Arabia have a long history of supporting proxies and political conflicts against each other. This latest crisis would undoubtedly undermine any ongoing initiatives for peace in a war-torn region where thousands of people have died due to sectarian violence and at the hands of the Islamic State.

Sudanese Colonel Killed in Clashes with Yemeni Troops

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Yemeni forces killed a high-ranking military officer of the Sudanese army in heavy clashes in Southwestern Yemen.

The Sudanese colonel was killed while fighting alongside the Saudi troops and pro-Hadi militias in the region of al-Waze'iya in the coastal province of Ta'iz on Saturday.

No further detail is available about the colonel.

Sudan has joined the Saudi-led coalition against Yemen in order to receive the Riyadh government's financial backup.

By Morgan Winsor

As tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia escalated Thursday, a growing number of Muslim countries in East Africa have started to choose sides. Sudan, Djibouti and now Somalia are standing by Riyadh and cutting ties with Tehran, a move that signals a shift away from Iranian influence in the region and a firm alignment with Saudi Arabia’s Sunni kingdom.

Close down the emergency section of Khartoum and selling it for foreign investor

Saudi flays attacks on embassy; Bahrain, Sudan end Tehran ties

RIYADH: The Majlis Al Shura, Shura Consultative Council, of Saudi Arabia has condemned the attacks on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and its Consulate in the city of Mashhad, and threats received by Saudi diplomats there from Iranian groups that stormed the two missions without a move from the Iranian security authorities to protect diplomats and Saudi diplomatic missions, in a clear violation of diplomatic norms and principles of international relations.