The attack on the White Nile state villages of Al-Kadaris and Al-Khelwat, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of the capital, sent thousands fleeing, witnesses told AFP.

"People will die because of these decisions," said a Sudanese fundraising volunteer

In July, a UN-backed review declared famine in Zamzam, a decades-old displacement camp home to between 500,000 and a million people.

To look away from Sudan, at this time, is tantamount to complicity.

Bangladesh national football team will play two practice matches against Sudan -- one tonight and the other on March 14 -- as part of their preparation for this month's World Cup Qualifiers against Palestine.

UN recognition of the 1971 East Pakistan genocide is not only important for the global body to regain its credibility and effectiveness, but also to expose a military institution which is seen as of strategic value to the West.

Streets in the Sudanese capital are empty, a day after a pro-democracy sit-in was violently overrun by the country’s ruling military authorities, who say they want to stage early elections within months.

The Sudanese group that led protests against deposed President Omar al-Bashir called for the transitional military council that has taken power to be disbanded and for a new interim civilian ruling council to be formed.

The new head of Sudan's military council says a civilian government would be formed after consultations with the opposition and the transition period would last for a maximum of two years, as protesters kept up pressure for rapid change.

Sudan’s ruling military council yesterday promised the country would have a new civilian government, a day after the armed forces overthrew President Omar al-Bashir, but the proposal was immediately rejected by the main protest group.

At least nine people are killed and 11 wounded in South Sudan's capital, Juba, when an unidentified gunman open fire on people watching a football match on television at the weekend.

South Sudanese Olympic athlete Guor Marial may not be a hot medal tip for Sunday's marathon, but the former slave's road to Rio is one of the most astonishing stories of the games.

Friends of a man extradited to Italy on Tuesday on people smuggling charges say police have the wrong man.

A previously unknown population of at least 100 lions is discovered by a wildlife charity in a remote park in north-western Ethiopia.

At least 25 people are killed when a plane crash-landed shortly after taking off from 's capital.

Talented American student of Sudanese origin Ahmed Mohammed Al-Hassan arrived in Jeddah to perform Umrah and visit his relatives, reports Arab News.

Sudanese model Nykhor Paul expressed her frustration as a dark-skinned woman in a largely light-skinned fashion industry, via Instagram post.

Barefoot, with sweat pouring down their naked chests, 50 men slave in the depths of the Central African forest digging for diamonds in a sandy pit half the size of a football pitch.

The world's last surviving male northern white rhino - stripped of his horn for his own safety - is now under 24-hour armed guard in a desperate final bid to save the species,

Nine British medical students and doctors are feared to has travel to Syria to work in areas controlled by Islamic State militants.