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Sudan Tribune
March 21, 2018
March 20, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - United Nations special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan has pledged Tuesday to support the African Union mediation in ... of the unilateral cessation of hostilities declaration by the government in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan states has positive effects in the two areas.
Jordan Times
March 20, 2018
CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi hosted his Sudanese counterpart Omar Al Bashir for talks in Cairo on Monday, with the pair ... One bone of contention is Egypt's administration of the Halayeb triangle, in a mineral-rich border area near the Red Sea, which Sudan claims as its own.
AllAfrica.com
March 13, 2018
Sudan: Assistant of the President Briefed On Arrangement for Holding the Blue Nile Leadership Gathering ... It is planed that some 200 of the top leaders of the Blue Nile region will meet to discuss working papers one about peace challenges and the other about the impact of rebellion on development inÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
March 4, 2018
March 4, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North Malik Agar (SPLM-N Agar) Sunday said they repelled an attack by Sudanese government forces on their positions in the Blue Nile State. JPEG - 57.9 kb; SPLM-N photo showing vehicles they claim to have seized from theÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 25, 2018
The exchange rate of the Sudanese Pound sharply declined in late 2017, as the lifting of international sanctions in October 2017, ending a trade embargo and unfreezing financial assets, ... A major concern exists for the conflict-affected areas in the Darfur Region and in Blue Nile and South Kordofan states.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 25, 2018
Ethiopia has been building for years the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam at its border with Sudan. It's on what is called the Blue Nile, the river's other major tributary. The Blue Nile accounts for some 85 percent of the water flowing into the main Nile. Ethiopia is at the point of filling the huge reservoirÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 24, 2018
Dozens of people were killed and wounded in bloody battles between the two factions of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), respectively led by Abdelaziz Adam El Hilu and Malik Agar in Sudan's Blue Nile state this week. The fighting has also reportedly led to displacement of aboutÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 23, 2018
Accompanied by the Commissioner for Refugee Affairs, Hon. Lt. Gen. Bol John Akot, and UNHCR Representative to South Sudan, Mr Johann Siffointe, His Excellency Seiji Okada, Ambassador of Japan to South Sudan, visited UNHCR Sub-Office Jamjang operation on 14 February. On the occasion of theÃâà...
BBC News
February 23, 2018
Join the BBC's Africa correspondent Alastair Leithead and his team, travelling from the Blue Nile's source to the sea - through Ethiopia and Sudan into Egypt. ... "It's very much a game changer, a new order is beginning in the whole region now," believes Rawia Tawfik, an Egyptian academic working inÃâà...
Mongabay.com
December 31, 1999
The Blue Nile patas monkey is found in the Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia as well as in eastern Sudan. Its range is geographically distinct from that of other patas monkeys, as Sudan's Sudd swamp region and the Ethiopian highlands isolate the Blue Nile patas in the extreme northeast end of patas monkeys'Ãâà...
