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Sep
02
2020
By The African Mirror
Sudan’s Bashir appears at trial over 1989 coup

Sudan’s Bashir appears at trial over 1989 coup

NEWS
OUSTED Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir appeared in court on Tuesday at the start of a trial over the military coup in which he took power in 1989. Giving his profession as “former president of the republic”, Bashir seemed in good physical condition as he appeared in a metal courtroom cage wearing white prison-issue clothes and a medical face mask that he lowered to identify himself. In footage carried by Sudanese state TV he said he was resident in Khartoum’s Kober prison, 76 years old, and had two wives. Some of Bashir’s former associates appeared alongside him at the trial, which…
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Sep
02
2020
By The African Mirror
FACTBOX: Sudan’s rebel groups

FACTBOX: Sudan’s rebel groups

NEWS
Sudan’s transitional authorities have signed a peace deal with some rebel groups after a year of negotiations in South Sudan’s capital, Juba. A handful of rebel groups have battled the army and allied militias in the western region of Darfur and the southern states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, some splintering after decades of civil conflict. These are the key ones: *Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) The JEM, led by Jibril Ibrahim, is one of two significant groups from the western region of Darfur to sign the peace deal. The group was among mostly non-Arab rebels who took up…
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Sep
01
2020
By The African Mirror
Sudan signs historic peace deal with five rebel groups

Sudan signs historic peace deal with five rebel groups

NEWS
SUDAN'S government signed a peace agreement with the country’s five key rebel groups on Monday, a significant step in the transitional leadership’s goal of resolving multiple, deep-rooted civil conflicts. The rebel groups that signed the deal include the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and Minni Minawi’s Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), both of the western region of Darfur, and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) led by Malik Agar, present in South Kordofan and the Blue Nile. - Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Aug
28
2020
By The African Mirror
Record floods cause deaths and widespread damage in Sudan

Record floods cause deaths and widespread damage in Sudan

NEWS
KHALID ABDELAZIZ  FLOOD waters in Sudan have reached the highest levels on record, killing dozens of people, destroying thousands of homes and encroaching on some neighbourhoods of the capital Khartoum. The flooding comes despite Ethiopia starting to fill the reservoir behind a giant new dam upstream on the Blue Nile in July. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is expected to help Sudan control future floods. Flooding regularly hits Sudan in summer, but this year's unprecedented water levels have left larger tracts of farmland submerged and residents around Khartoum are looking anxiously outside their homes for fear of the rising…
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Aug
26
2020
By The African Mirror
Sudan PM tells Pompeo he’s not authorised to normalise ties with Israel

Sudan PM tells Pompeo he’s not authorised to normalise ties with Israel

NEWS
KHALID ABDELAZIZ SUDANESE Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday that he was not mandated to normalise ties with Israel, and the issue should not be linked to Sudan's removal from a U.S. state sponsor of terrorism list. Pompeo arrived from Israel on what he said was the first official non-stop flight between the two countries, as the United States looks to strengthen Sudan-Israel ties. He met Hamdok and ruling council head Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, tweeting that Sudan's democratic transition was a "once in a generation opportunity". He discussed the Sudan-Israel relationship with…
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Aug
26
2020
By The African Mirror
Sudan and Ethiopia pledge to push for deal on Blue Nile dam

Sudan and Ethiopia pledge to push for deal on Blue Nile dam

NEWS
ETHIOPIA’S prime minister and Sudan's leadership have said they would make every effort to reach a deal on a giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile that has caused a bitter dispute between Addis Ababa and Cairo over water supplies. Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan failed to strike an agreement on the operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) before the reservoir behind the dam began being filled in July. But the three countries have returned to talks under African Union mediation. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited Khartoum on Tuesday with a high-level delegation to meet Sudanese officials, who…
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Aug
20
2020
By The African Mirror
Sudan fires foreign ministry spokesman following Israel remarks

Sudan fires foreign ministry spokesman following Israel remarks

NEWS
SUDAN has fired its foreign ministry spokesman following remarks he made concerning "contacts" between Khartoum and Israel, the state news agency SUNA has reported. Spokesman Haydar Sadig made the comments to regional media and confirmed them to Reuters on Tuesday, describing the United Arab Emirates' decision to normalise relations with Israel as "a brave and bold step". Sudan's foreign ministry said it was "astonished" by his remarks and stressed that the government had not discussed the possibility of diplomatic relations. - Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Aug
19
2020
By The African Mirror
Sudan ‘astonished’ at spokesman’s remarks about ‘contacts’ with Israel

Sudan ‘astonished’ at spokesman’s remarks about ‘contacts’ with Israel

NEWS
KHALID ABDELAZIZ SUDAN’S Foreign Ministry has said it was astonished by remarks made by its own spokesman in which he said Khartoum had "contacts" with Israel, stressing that the government had not discussed the possibility of diplomatic relations. Haydar Sadig, the ministry's spokesman, made the comment to Reuters earlier in the day and praised the United Arab Emirates' decision to normalise relations with Israel as "a brave and bold step". He was confirming remarks made earlier to regional media. Under the U.S.-brokered deal announced last week, the UAE becomes the just third Arab country to forge full relations with Israel…
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Aug
06
2020
By The African Mirror
Egypt to withdraw from latest dam talks for internal consultations

Egypt to withdraw from latest dam talks for internal consultations

NEWS
EGYPT said on Tuesday that it has decided to withdraw from the latest round of tripartite negotiations with Ethiopia over its multi-billion dollar dam on the Blue Nile for internal consultations after Addis Ababa proposed new draft of filling guidelines. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is being built about 15 km (9 miles) from the Ethiopian border with Sudan on the Blue Nile, has become a major sticking point between the three countries. Egypt fears the $4 billion project could lead to water shortages upstream, while Sudan is concerned about the dam's safety. The Blue Nile is a tributary…
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Aug
03
2020
By The African Mirror
The Grand Renaissance Dam: what’s at stake and what could break the deadlock

The Grand Renaissance Dam: what’s at stake and what could break the deadlock

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
MAHEMUD TEKUYA, JSD/Ph.D candidate, University of the Pacific The Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam is inching closer to completion, rekindling the environmental and political controversies that have dogged the project from the start nearly 10 years ago. In addition, recent satellite images show a steady increase in the amount of water being held back by the new mega dam. Mahemud Tekuya explains what’s at stake. The current dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is directly linked to colonial-era Nile treaties. During the scramble for Africa, controlling the source of the Nile was a major colonial goal for the British. In…
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