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Cash-strapped Sudan clears overdue payments to World Bank

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 12, 2015 file photo, Sayed Ahmed Abdoh poles his boat to check his fish traps in the Nile River, near Abu al-Nasr village, about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south of Cairo, in Egypt. An Ethiopian official said on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 that his government opposes calls by Sudan for outside mediators including the United States in the ongoing dispute over its construction of a massive hydroelectric dam on the Nile River. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

Ethiopia rejects outside mediation in Nile River dam dispute

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Sudan officials, Saudi crown prince talk Red Sea investments

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 30, 2020 file photo, residents displaced from a surge of violent attacks squat on blankets and in hastily made tents in the village of Masteri in west Darfur, Sudan. The U.N. says ethnic fighting in Jan. 2021 in Darfur spanned two provinces, killing at least 250 people and displacing 120,000, mostly women and children. The Darfur bloodletting — just two weeks after the end of the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force’s decade-long mandate in the region — raised questions about the government's ability to protect civilians there. (Mustafa Younes via AP, FIle)

US urges Sudan to build an inclusive government for all

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2020, file photo, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi speaks during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee palace in Paris. Egypt’s president arrived in Sudan on Saturday, March 6, 2021, his first visit to the country since a popular uprising led to the military’s overthrow of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir in 2019.(AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Egypt’s president el-Sissi visits Sudan amid rapprochement

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 24, 2011, file photo, Sudan's new currency sits behind a window at the central bank in Khartoum, Sudan. The country took the unprecedented but expected step of floating its currency Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, meeting a major demand by international financial insinuations to help transitional authorities overhaul the battered economy. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf, File)

Sudan announces managed currency float to revive economy

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Sudan summons home envoy to Ethiopia amid border dispute

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Sayid Ismael Baraka, a U.S. citizen from Atlanta, Georgia, participates in a World Refugee Day event held by the UNHCR in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 20, 2019. Baraka went to a village in West Darfur province for a family visit in December 2020. One day during his stay, the 36-year-old was killed in an attack by local militias. Baraka was among dozens of people killed in a recent spike of violence in the restive province that is threatening Sudan’s fragile transitional government. (Usumain Baraka via AP)

Ethnic clashes in Darfur could reignite Sudan’s old conflict

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok announces new cabinet in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. The new cabinet includes rebel ministers as part of a peace deal transitional authorities stuck with a rebel alliance last year. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Sudan’s PM reshuffles Cabinet to add rebel ministers

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

ICC officials in Sudan seek cooperation for Darfur justice

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

US deputy Africa commander in Sudan, hails ‘new beginning’

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FILE - In this June 29, 2019 file photo, Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the military council, speaks during a military-backed rally, in Omdurman district, west of Khartoum, Sudan. An Israeli delegation headed by Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen quietly visited Sudan and met with Burhan, officials from both countries said Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. The visit on Monday was the first visit by an Israeli minister to Sudan less than three weeks after Khartoum inked an agreement to normalize ties with Israel. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Officials say Israeli minister visited Sudan to discuss ties

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

UN: Violence in Sudan’s Darfur killed 250, displaced 100,000

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Sudanese Prime MInister Abdullah Hamdok, right, bumps elbows with British Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab in the Cabinet Building, in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Raab was in the Sudanese capital Thursday to discuss bilateral relations and tensions along the border with Ethiopia, Sudan's state news agency reported. (AP Photo)

UK backs Sudan economic reforms with over $50 million

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

Armed men try to storm governor’s house in Sudan’s Darfur

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Map locates West Darfur

Tribal clashes leave dozens dead in 2 Sudanese provinces

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 29, 2019 file photo, residents of a refugee camp gather around the burned remains of makeshift structures, in Genena, Sudan. Sudanese authorities on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, imposed a round-the-clock curfew in the entire West Darfur province after tribal clashes between Arabs and non-Arabs killed at least six people and wounded at least 28 others. (Organization for the General Coordination of Camps for Displaced and Refugees via AP, File)

Deadly clashes kill 32 in Sudan’s Darfur

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

A demonstrator gives the victory sign during a protest, in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. Protests in Sudan’s capital and across the country are demanding a faster pace to democratic reforms, in demonstrations that are marking the two-year anniversary of the uprising that led to the military’s ouster of strongman Omar al-Bashir. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Sudanese protesters rally, demand detention centers closed

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

Refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region ride a bus going to the Village 8 temporary shelter, near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, on Dec. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Sudanese military helicopter crashes near Ethiopian border

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia say talks on disputed dam deadlocked

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