FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 8 - The Untold Story

Over 40% of Sudan's population face high levels of acute food insecurity, monitoring group warns

A global hunger monitoring group reported that over 40% of Sudan's population faces acute food insecurity through May

The Independent UK · May 14

In Sudan, a migrant community reveals a resistance to malaria: the genetic study helping shape medicine

Sudan lies at the crossroads of Africa and the Middle East. It has played a key role in human demographic movements, reflected in the diversity of its cultures and languages. Although much of the country is arid, the Nile River has long acted as a corridor for trade, facilitating human…

The Conversation · May 14

North Dakota Court Refuses to Recognize Foreign Islamic Divorce

From a decision last year in Ali v. Osman, from Judge Stephanie Hayden (N.D. Cass County Dist. Ct.); I just… The post North Dakota Court Refuses to Recognize Foreign Islamic Divorce appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · May 14

Sudan drone strikes killed at least 880 civilians between January and April, UN says

Most of the civilian deaths attributed to drone strikes in the first three months of the year were recorded in the Kordofan region and Darfur, although the strikes were also increasingly spreading beyond both regions.

Euronews · May 11

Sudan civil war enters 'deadlier' phase due to use of drones, says UN

At least 880 civilians were killed in drone strikes in Sudan between January and April this year, according to the United Nations human rights office, which warns that the increased use of drones risks intensifying violence in the ongoing conflict.

Radio France Internationale · May 11

Lion's head pendant: An ancient Egyptian board game piece that was later repurposed into a magical religious object with baboons

An ancient Egyptian board game piece was repurposed centuries later in Sudan into a dazzling gold-and-amethyst pendant.

LiveScience · May 11

Sudan was already at war and hungry. Now its farmers are hit by another conflict

Sudan and its farmers were already struggling after three years of war at home, but now the conflict in the Middle East has disrupted supply chains

The Independent UK · May 8

UN votes to cut the peacekeeping force in South Sudan from 17,000 to 12,000

The U.N. Security Council has voted to reduce the ceiling for the peacekeeping force in conflict-torn South Sudan to 12,000 troops, down from 17,000

The Independent UK · Apr 30

UN warns of famine in South Sudan: ‘We are witnessing a deadly downward spiral’

A doctors also tells The Independent that there is no electricity at the hospital they work at because there is no fuel – and surgeons have performed caesarean sections with almost no medicines

The Independent UK · Apr 29

Calls for humanitarian corridor through strait of Hormuz as Iran war hits vital aid

Soaring oil prices and the blockade are preventing food, fuel and medicine being delivered to millions of people in desperate need, say NGOs

The Guardian - UK · Apr 29