Abdalla Hamdok

Armed Forces Detain PM and Other Leaders in Sudan ‘Coup’

Armed forces detained Sudan's prime minister over his refusal to support their "coup", the information ministry said.

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Five Sudan Officers Killed Targeting IS Cell: Security Officials

Five Sudanese counterterrorism officers were killed Tuesday during a raid in Khartoum targeting "a cell linked to the Islamic State group."

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Sudan, Ethiopia Start Border Talks One Week After Clash

Sudan and Ethiopia started talks Tuesday to demarcate their border one week after a deadly clash in a disputed area.

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Sudan’s Bloody Tribal Clashes Threaten Fragile Transition

An upsurge in bloody tribal clashes in Sudan has killed at least 59 people and wounded over 100 this month, heaping more pressure on the country’s fragile transitional government. More than a year since the fall of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir, who ruled over ethnically diverse regions with an iron fist, the joint civilian-military administration has struggled to steady a politically and economically unstable Sudan. In the latest inter-ethnic violence, 30 people were killed in clashes on May 7 between the Arab Rizeigat tribe and the Falata, who trace their roots to western Africa, sparked by a dispute over livestock. Three days later, three people died, 79 were wounded and several homes were burnt down in violence between members of the Bani Amer and Nuba tribes in the eastern city of Kassala, near Sudan’s border with Eritrea. This was followed by yet more lethal confrontations that left 26 people dead and 19 injured on May 13 in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan province. Tribal grievances spilling over into bloodshed have been a mainstay of Sudan’s numerous ethnic conflicts since independence from British and Egyptian rule in 1956. Sudan’s most notorious violence shook the Dafur region in 2003 when Bashir’s …

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Sudan prime minister Hamdok survives assassination attempt

Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok escaped unharmed as an assassination attempt using explosives targeted his convoy in the capital Khartoum

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