0643 GMT January 19, 2021
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Nearly 600 people have been taken to Tunaydbah camp in Sudan’s Gedaref State, according to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, after nearly two months of ongoing conflict across the border in Ethiopia, between federal Government troops and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
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Washington formally withdrew Sudan from its blacklist of state sponsors of “terrorism” after the African country's military-led government agreed to normalize ties with the Israeli regime, the US Embassy in Khartoum declared.
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UN officials said on Friday around $200 million is needed to provide assistance to the thousands refugees flooding into Sudan seeking shelter from fighting in Ethiopia.
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For the first time in history, Sudan selected the country’s first Oscars submission.
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In a sun-baked and dusty wasteland in remote eastern Sudan, crews are laboring to rebuild a refugee camp for the 25,000 people who have fled heavy fighting in neighboring Ethiopia's Tigray region.
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Around 25,000 Ethiopians fleeing conflict in the Tigray region have crossed into neighboring Sudan, state news agency SUNA reported, as the UN said it was working to find them shelter.
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Iran denounced a US-brokered agreement between Israel and Sudan to begin normalizing relations as a “ransom” paid by Khartoum in return for Washington taking it off a blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism.
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On Sudan's Tuti Island, where the Blue and White Nile meet, the highest river waters since records began have left people struggling to hold back the rising floods.
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The Sudanese government is sending more troops to the restive Darfur region, following a spike in violence there.
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Sudan's former president Omar al-Bashir, ousted amid an uprising last year, faces trial from Tuesday over the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago.
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Sudan’s public prosecutor on Monday announced the discovery of a mass grave east of Khartoum suspected to contain the remains of students killed in 1998 who tried escaping military service from a training camp.
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Sudanese environmental activists warned that the 70-year-old El Feel Forest in El Gedaref state, originally designed to counter desert encroachment, “risks being transformed into a barren desert” due to uncontrolled clearances and the transformation of the forest into agricultural lands.
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Sudan has agreed to compensate the families of sailors killed in an al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole warship 20 years ago, state news agency SUNA said on Thursday, part of government efforts to remove the country from a list of state sponsors of terrorism.
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Sudan's rulers are to hand over ex-president, Omar al-Bashir, to the International Criminal Court.
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