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Screenshot of a video of Sudanese male singers.
Music
Sudan Tapes Archive preserves music across decades and continents
Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack, center, and Erin Barclay attend a briefing on the 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at the State Department in Washington, March 20, 2023.
Conflict & Justice
The US is helping the ICC investigate war crimes in Sudan, diplomat says
People board a truck as they leave Khartoum, Sudan, on June 19, 2023.
Displacement
‘I no longer have a dream’: Sudan has the largest displacement of children in the world
Illustration by Megan J. Goff.
Conflict & Justice
Tracking atrocities in Sudan: ‘The world has become significantly less anonymous for war criminals’
USAID Administrator Samantha Power is interviewed by the AP at USAID Headquarters in Washington, Aug. 4, 2022.
Conflict
USAID chief says she’s haunted by how many people are unable to leave Sudan
evacuees at night
Global Security
Factory that made essential therapeutic food for malnourished children in Sudan burns down
Evacuees leave Saudi Amanah ship after landing at Jeddah port, Saudi Arabia, May 4, 2023. 
Conflict & Justice
Negotiations continue in Saudi Arabia to end fighting in Sudan
smoke comes out from a building
Conflict
Sudan’s health care system near collapse amid fighting
DMV rapper and record producer Oddisee realized early on that purpose and success are self-designated.
Movement
Sudanese American rapper Oddisee on overcoming cultural taboos and confronting self-doubt
Smoke rises from a central neighborhood of Khartoum, Sudan, amid intense fighting between armed forces, April 16, 2023.
Conflict & Justice
Fighting between armed forces in Sudan continues amid warnings of wider regional conflict
Sudanese demonstrators attend a rally to demand the return to civilian rule a year after a military coup, Khartoum, Sudan
Conflict
Sudanese generals, pro-democracy group sign framework deal
People stage a sit-in demanding a return to civilian rule and to protest the nine people who were killed in anti-military demonstrations last month, in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, July 4, 2022.
Protest
Sudanese protesters demand a ‘purely civilian transitional government’ activist says
Kandaka, the lion, with her cubs at the Sudan Animal Rescue, Khartoum, Sudan, Dec, 4, 2021
Environment
Founder of animal rescue in Sudan nurses wild animals back to health
Sudan's top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok hold documents during a ceremony to reinstate Hamdok, who was deposed in a coup last month, in Khartoum, Sudan
Global Politics
Sudan’s civilian prime minister is reinstated weeks after military takeover
Protestors clash with riot police during a demonstration against the reinforced measures of the Belgium government to counter the latest spike of the coronavirus in Brussels, Belgium
Top of The World
Europe sees widespread protests against COVID-19 restrictions
People protest in Khartoum, Sudan, after a military coup earlier this week, Oct. 29, 2021.
Conflict & Justice
Amid plans of mass protests, Sudan’s military suggests ousted prime minister can return to power
The logo for ExxonMobil appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
Top of The World
Top US oil executives to testify before Congress
Palestinian laborers work building new houses in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Bruchin near the Palestinian town of Nablus
Top of The World
Israel approves nearly 3,000 new Jewish settlement homes in the West Bank
A pro-democracy protester wearing a turquoise blue scarf flashes the victory sign as thousands take to the streets to condemn a takeover by military officials, in Khartoum, Sudan, Oct. 25, 2021.
Protest
Sudanese protester to military: ‘Our numbers are too big to be ignored’
A gas station is empty because the gas pumps are out of service in Tehran, Iran, after a widespread outage of a system that allows consumers to buy fuel with a government-issued card
Top of The World
Iran faces widespread gas station outage, believed to be a cyberattack.
Two rows of wooden pews are shown with several people standing while a priest is at the front of the church.
Sacred Nation
Two years after revolution, Christians in Sudan evaluate gains
A large crowd od people are shown outside of the tan-colored Grand Mosque with a man selling beaded jewelry in the nearground.
Sacred Nation
After the revolution, a secular Sudan?
(Clockwise from top left) Meklit Hadero in red lighting, Sinkane stsnding in front of wooden wall, Diana Gameros standing in front of a brick wall and Hello Psychaleppo looking down at a keyboard.
Movement
Four musicians grapple with the same question: What is home?
Protesters clap and cheer on the streets under a hot sun and blue sky, with one woman wearing sunglasses and head covering
Foreign policy
Sudanese celebrate planned removal from US terror list
Doreen Oport, who was injured in the attack on the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya in 1998, stands outside the US Supreme Court after oral arguments in Washington, Feb. 24, 2020.
The State Dept. is nearing a deal over 1998 terrorism victims. But can Sudan pay it?
Sudanese protesters gesture and chant slogans at a barricade along a street, demanding that the country's Transitional Military Council hand over power to civilians, in Khartoum, Sudan June 5, 2019
Conflict
A return to civil war could be brewing in Sudan
Two Sudanese men give a two-finger salute to the camera. Behind them a pile of tires is burning.
Sudan’s military council meets with opposition to steer country toward democracy
A woman wearing a colorful headband holds a bass guitar
Music
Sudanese jazz musician says young women like her are driving the country’s ‘revolution’
Dep’t of Education Stops Investigating For-Profit Colleges
Full Episode
Teklit Michael dreamed of running in the London Olympics. But his country, Eritrea, jailed him. So he fled to Israel.
Conflict
A life of statelessness derailed this Eritrean runner’s hopes to compete in the Olympics
Arts, Culture & Media
Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng
Arts, Culture & Media
Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng
Arts, Culture & Media
Sinkane Live In-Studio
Leila Day (left) and Hana Baba (right), co-hosts of the podcast, The Stoop.
Culture
Creators of a new podcast are unpacking black identity
Teklit Michael, 29, an asylum seeker from Eritrea
Justice
Israel has developed a system for pushing out refugees it doesn’t want
Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Conflict
The future of the International Criminal Court is in question, and that’s bad news for women
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Global Politics
Trump’s immigration order forces complicated calculations for some Sudanese immigrants
Brkitay Gebru wakes every morning at dawn to care for her children. Her husband took off in February and she hasn't heard from him since.
Justice
This Eritrean woman found out her husband had abandoned her when she couldn’t find her bank card to pay rent
For decades, a visa waiver program has allows passengers from 38 countries to visit the US without advance approval for 90 days or less.
Conflict
A clampdown on a US visa waiver program might spark unintended consequences
Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance dam on the Blue Nile, shown under construction in March of 2014. Egypt claims most of the water in the 4,000 mile-long river that it shares with 10 other countries, and fears the $4.7 billion Renaissance dam will reduce the wa
Environment
A deal on Africa’s biggest dam eases tensions on the Nile
A girl and her brother shelter in a cave during an air raid in the Nuba mountains of Sudan in 2012.
Conflict
Doctors become targets in Sudan’s forgotten wars
Jimmy Carter
Health
President Jimmy Carter is still fighting to eradicate tropical diseases
Retrieving Well Water In Sindh, Pakistan
When water scarcity leads to conflict
Full Episode
Clean water a casualty of civil war in South Sudan
Global Politics
South Sudan prepares for independence vote
People displaced by the fighting wait to get clean water at a water point in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) at the United Nations (UN) base in Bentiu, Unity State.
Conflict & Justice
A flood of South Sudanese refugees is overwhelming the UN camp in Bentiu
A South Sudanese girl displaced by the conflict carries a younger boy on her back as they walk through mud in a flooded camp for internally displaced people at the UNMISS base in Malakal, Upper Nile State May 30, 2014. There are about 18,000 people shelte
Conflict & Justice
A million South Sudanese are at risk of starving
Lifestyle & Belief
Sudan’s pride is a soda that tastes like, well, whatever you think it tastes like
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Lifestyle & Belief
A Sudanese smoke bath detoxifies the skin and brings back memories
Khartoum Soundbites: Vintage Sudanese Pop Selected by Alsarah
Afropop Premiere: Alsarah and the Nubatones’ “Nuba Nouto”
South Sudan shoes
Conflict & Justice
How shoes can tell the plight of refugees in South Sudan
Former NBA player Ira Newble at a refugee camp on the Chad/Sudan border.
Global Politics
A former NBA player who knows sports activism says he’s lost respect for Dennis Rodman
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Conflict & Justice
South Sudan remains on the brink of civil war
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir (L) poses for a photograph with his host, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, at the latter's office in Juba, South Sudan.
Global Politics
Is Sudan saying ‘I told you so’ to South Sudan?
Global Scan
At this Christmas, Santa will be looking somewhere new for many refugees
South Sudan's President, Salva Kiir, listens to a question during a news conference, Wednesday. He's accused of not listening to critics.
Conflict & Justice
Was there a coup in South Sudan?
A rally for Sudan held in San Francisco.
Conflict & Justice
Online videos showed violent clashes in Sudan one street over from my parents’ house
Gas station fuel pumps are toppled during protests over fuel subsidy cuts in Khartoum September 25, 2013
Global Politics
Sudanese take to the streets as gas prices double overnight
Global Politics
South Sudan: A Young Nation on a Razor’s Edge