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“Be My Guest”: Trust as Economic Capital in Sudanese Displacement
The Sudan War series is a joint collaboration between the Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation – Khartoum (CEDEJ-K), Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC) and African Arguments – Debating Ideas. Through a number of...

Sudanese Pound falls sharply against USD, EGP, amid drone attacks, instability
Instability, including drone attacks on Port Sudan, saw the Sudanese Pound fall sharply against international currencies in May. The drone attacks, which occurred daily, targeted military and civilian facilities, including the military base, Port...

UAE Profiting from Sudan’s Chaos: Gold Smuggling Fuels War and Enriches Abu Dhabi
Watan-Amid the chaos and civil war tearing Sudan apart, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is far from a passive observer. Instead, it ranks high among those benefiting from the country’s collapse—particularly through the gold trade, which has become...

Syrian, Sudanese agricultural cooperation to boost investment
Damascus, SANA-Syrian Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Amjad Badr, discussed Wednesday with the Chargé d’Affaires of the Sudanese Embassy in Damascus, Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim Hassan, mechanisms for activating agricultural cooperation agreements between the...

Sudanese Teachers’ Committee rejects decision to return to schools in Khartoum in absence of security and services
The Sudanese Teachers’ Committee has voiced its disagreement with a decision by the Khartoum state government’s decision to reopen schools, saying that the move ignores the deteriorating security, health, and economic reality, and post a direct...

Azerbaijani FM meets newly appointed Sudanese Ambassador
On June 25, 2025, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeyhun Bayramov received the newly appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Sudan to Azerbaijan, Anas Eltayeb Elgaylani Mustafa, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told APA. The ambassador...

Boycat app aims to build global ethical economy for Palestine
Adil Abbuthalha, founder of the ethical consumption app Boycat, which offers users worldwide a way to contribute individually to Palestine, said his platform’s next phase aims to create an ecosystem providing alternatives to boycott products and...

‘Pakistan, Kenya can open new avenues to enhance trade, investment’
LAHORE: Kenya High Commissioner Lt Gen Peter Mbogo Njiru (Retd) has said that Kenya and Pakistan have a lot of potential to boost trade and economic ties. The growing interest of Pakistani entrepreneurs in strengthening bilateral trade and...

Bonn bulletin: Developing nations call for adaptation finance to triple by 2030
Call to triple adaptation finance At COP26 four years ago, governments agreed to “urge” developed countries to double finance for adapting to climate change up to around $40 billion a year by 2025. That goal ends this year, although we will not...

Trump is trying to get US tech companies to cut off service for Israel’s critics
The International Criminal Court (ICC) headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. Photo by Lina Selg/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Mira Fox June 24, 2025 Most of the world’s major tech giants — companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon — are...

Culture Trump is trying to get US tech companies to cut off service for Israel’s critics By Mira Fox 3 min read
The International Criminal Court (ICC) headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. Photo by Lina Selg/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Mira Fox June 24, 2025 Most of the world’s major tech giants — companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon — are...

Victory over Iran gives Trump the chance to reshape Mideast with trade deals
Israel’s decisive victory over Iran’s Islamist regime has set Tehran’s nuclear plans back years at the least. It has also created a unique opening to normalize ties between Jerusalem and the Arab world, via an expansion of President Trump’s...

Bringing the weight of war: the head of Unicef meets some of the 700,000 children refugees from Sudan who cross Chad
In neighboring Chad, children represent 61% of the 860,000 Sudanese refugees and 68% of 274,000 Chadiens returnees – or more than 700,000 young lives uprooted by violence. Chad, already one of the poorest countries in the world, has the fourth...

United States Involvement in Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam: Funding and Geopolitics-U.S. Financial Support: Fact vs. Fiction
By PAUL DELKASO President Trump’s tweets—polarizing though they may be—carry hard realities beneath the rhetoric. His latest remark about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), while framed with trademark bravado, deserves a closer look. Yes,...

Las 5 cosas que debes saber este 24 de junio: Alto el fuego Irán e Israel, estrecho de Ormuz y deportaciones a Sudán del Sur
Por CNN en Español Todas las miradas están en el estrecho de Ormuz. Trump sugiere un “cambio de régimen” en Irán, aunque el verdadero impacto de los ataques está lejos de estar claro. La Corte Suprema de EE.UU. permite a Trump deportar inmigrantes...

Rising Tensions in Iran: Market Volatility, Strategic Risks, and the Limits of Regime Change
18 Brussels, 24 June 2025 – As tensions escalate following Israeli air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, the global energy markets have responded with marked volatility. In an exclusive interview with EU Today, Dr Marat Terterov, Founder and...

Risky business: how firms can survive in an era of turmoil
Chris Hedges All the old tropes have been resurrected to entice us into another military fiasco. A country that poses no threat to us, or to its neighbors, is on the verge of acquiring a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) that imperils our...

Brazil Discusses Cooperation With Sudan
(MENAFN- Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA)) São Paulo – The Secretary-General of Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs , Maria Laura da Rocha, and the Ambassador of Sudan to Brazil, Ahmed Swar, met on Monday (23) in Brasília to discuss the security...

La Corte Suprema de EE.UU. permite a Trump deportar migrantes a Sudán del Sur y otros países en crisis
Por Angélica Franganillo Díaz y John Fritze, CNN La Corte Suprema de EE.UU. concedió este lunes la solicitud de emergencia del presidente Donald Trump para reanudar la deportación de migrantes a países distintos de su lugar de origen, incluidos...

Dramatic rise in the number of journalists killed in six months
The FINANCIAL — The number of journalists killed rose dramatically in the first six months of this year. Since January, 86 media workers have been killed in 26 countries, more than 16% compared to last year, said Friday the Press Emblem Campaign...