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Mahdi Ali, also known as MaMan, a celebrated Sudanese music producer and singer, slept in late, unaware that the world outside was rapidly changing. When he finally woke up around noon, an eerie ...

Laylah Ali was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1968, and lives and works in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She received a BA from Williams College and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, ...

For the first half of the twentieth century, Sudan was a joint protectorate of Egypt and the United Kingdom, known as the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium. Egypt and the United Kingdom signed a treaty ...

In 1956, Britain and Egypt relinquished their colonial control over Sudan, forming the newly independent Republic of Sudan. After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and ...

Deadly crash, attributed by sources to technical reasons, comes as the military makes advances in central Sudan and the capital against RSF. The death toll from a Sudanese military plane crash in ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1994, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...

18, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku) A man walks by a house hit in recent fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, an area torn by fighting between the military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, ...

While the Sudanese army recaptured the symbolic presidential palace in Khartoum, military strikes, famine and diseases continue to kill civilians in the war-torn country. Millions have been displaced.

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Imtiaz Ali’s Amar Singh Chamkila was one of the most talked-about and acclaimed films ... Rather than focusing on the tragic assassination of Chamkila, he chose to celebrate the artist’s unwavering ...