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The annual Intersessional Meetings of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpile, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (aka Ottawa Convention, AP Mine Ban Convention, or Mine Ban Treaty) closed on 21 June in Read More …
Handicap International/Humanity & Inclusion (HI) is an independent and impartial international solidarity organization, which intervenes in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflicts and disasters. Place: Chad or Egypt Mission site To Be Determined Duration of contract: 6 months Starting date: Read More …
The Government of Japan has contributed USD 980,000 to the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), a component of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), to advance Sudan’s peacebuilding efforts through humanitarian mine action. Aiming to Read More …
Three siblings were killed in an explosion as a result of an unexploded ordnance (UXO), the fourth sibling was also injured in the explosion which occurred in Duram village in North Darfur, on Friday. Sources told Radio Dabanga that the Read More …
Six children were reportedly injured after an undetonated device exploded at the Zamzam internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in North Darfur, Sudan. The device believed to be unexploded ordnance (UXO) went off after one of the children found it in Read More …
Security chiefs and experts from the Intergovernmental Authority of Development (IGAD) and member states converged in Kampala on Tuesday to chart possible ways of collaboration to combat threats posed by the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). The IGAD director of Security Read More …
After a month-long training, the first batch of 28 young women graduated in basic humanitarian demining, joining only one other female deminer in Sudan. The successful completion of the training is an unprecedented achievement for both mine action and Sudan Read More …
An explosion killed at least four people at a sports venue in a key Sudanese Red Sea port city, medics said Sunday. The blast took place late Saturday at a busy sporting club in Port Sudan. It was not immediately Read More …
The unarmed experts will support the planning and carrying out of demining operations as part of an international peace mission, according to the defence ministry. Peace and stability in the African country is also in the interest of Switzerland, the Read More …
The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) says it is exploring areas of support from the United Kingdom in the fight against terrorism. Chief of Military Public Information, Col. Muhammad Dole, announced this in a statement on Saturday. Member countries of Read More …
The Attorney General, Tajal-Sir Al-Hibir, announced at a media briefing Wednesday the detection of explosive materials that pose a security threat to Sudan and neighboring countries. Present at the media briefing were the General Director of the Police Forces, Deputy Read More …
A new round of violence in Sudan’s Darfur region has killed more than 60 people, the United Nations said on Sunday, as the country’s prime minister promised fresh troops for the conflict-stricken region. The UN Office for the Coordination of Read More …
The Chairman of the 18th meeting of the States Parties to the Ottawa Treaty, Ambassador Osman Abu Fatima Adam, the Acting Chargé d’Affairs to the Permanent Mission of Sudan in Geneva, addressed Tuesday, the intersessional meetings that will last until Read More …
This article will analyze two exceptions. The first is the long absence of confrontation between al Qaeda and Islamic state offshoots in the Sahel area. The second is an elected official conducting negotiations with an al Qaeda offshoot. Both constitute Read More …
A powerful explosion took place in the arsenal of the Sudan Armed Forces in Ed Daein, capital of East Darfur, yesterday morning. The explosion caused panic among the people of Ed Daein, as shrapnel from the explosion as well as Read More …
American investigators will help Sudan with enquiries into a failed assassination attempt against Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, the Sudanese culture and information minister said on Wednesday. A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) team “arrived this morning and will join Sudanese Read More …
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has survived an assassination attempt, Sudan’s state media has said. Hamdok’s convoy was hit by a strong blast in Sudanese capital of Khartoum. Unconfirmed media reports say Improvised Explosive Device (IED) hit the last car Read More …
A grenade exploded yesterday at a wedding party in Sudan’s capital, killing at least five people, the Ministry of Health said early Tuesday. The incident occurred in the Shegla neighborhood of Khartoum’s al-Haj Youssef district due to a fight between Read More …
Two children are dead and three wounded in a landmine explosion in Heiban in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains. A fact-finding committee has been set up following the death of eight children in a blast in Omdurman. On March 21, two children Read More …
UNAMID and the Government of Sudan (GoS) on 10 December 2018 officially declared the registered contaminated areas at Kulbus Locality, West Darfur, free of Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) and Unexploded Ordnance (UXO). This followed the successful implementation of a Read More …