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The gruelling 22-hour journey a family will endure to escape a coup in Sudan

The conflict in Sudan broke out on 15th April unexpectedly leaving thousands of citizens around the world trapped without any exit.

Manchester Evening News

Inflation, IMF austerity and grandiose military plans edge more Egyptians into poverty

Two-thirds of the population are struggling with falling living standards as even the once-thriving middle classes hunt for second jobs and eat less

The Guardian - UK

Sudan's well-off stuck in limbo at border town en route to Egypt

After sleeping for a week under a tree in the backyard of a mosque in the Sudanese town of Wadi Halfa, Dalia Hassan is torn over whether she should cross the frontier into Egypt, or wait until her 18-year-old son gets a visa.

Reuters

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Mohamed Salah sights set on more records after latest Liverpool landmark

The Egypt international wrote his name in the Reds’ history books with his winner against Brentford.

The Independent UK

Liverpool's Mohamed Salah breaks more records with 100th goal for Reds at Anfield

The Egyptian forward gave the Reds a first-half lead against Brentford on Saturday and is now level with Steven Gerrard

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Sudan's conflict will have a ripple effect in an unstable region - and across the world

Sudan, Africa’s third largest country by land mass, shares borders with seven countries in an unstable region. This means that Sudan’s current conflict will have economic, social and political ripple effects across a number of countries, including the Central African Republic, Egypt, Libya, Chad, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea.

The Conversation

HRW: Academic held by Egyptian authorities at risk of death

Human Rights Watch joins 50 other groups to call for release of Egyptian academic Salah Soltan, detained in Egypt.

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Egyptian ex-MP planning presidential bid says relatives arrested

Egyptian authorities have arrested two male relatives and three friends of former member of parliament Ahmed Eltantawy, he said on Thursday, shortly before his announced return home ahead of an intended presidential election bid.

Reuters

Sudan: the longer the conflict lasts, the higher the risk of a regional war

The 2019 Sudan uprisings that ousted long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir and installed a military-civilian transitional government gave hope that the northern African country could finally transition to democratic rule. The country has been ruled by the military for most of its independence since 1956.

The Conversation

Nightmare in Sudan: African expats struggle to find way out

Nigerian law student Umar Yusuf Yaru was relaxing in his apartment when he first heard gunfire last month in his Khartoum neighbourhood.

Reuters

Brit gran, 88, forced to pay £45,000 to cross Sudan border after sleeping on cardboard

The family of seven, including an 88-year-old Kent-born grandma and her three grandchildren under 10, managed to escape the fighting in the capital Khartoum and reached the Sudan-Egypt border town of Wadi Halfa

Daily Mirror

Sisi: Egypt Facing Growing Difficulties with More Sudanese Seeking Refuge

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said that his country is facing growing economic “difficulties” because of Sudanese people fleeing the conflict raging in their country to Egypt . In an interview with a Japanese newspaper on Tuesday, The Asahi Shimbun, Sisi said that the Egyptian economy is doomed to worsen…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Egypt Raises Diesel Prices, Keeps Gasoline Unchanged

Egypt's fuel pricing committee raised its diesel prices by EGP 1 to EGP 8.25 ($0.2666) per liter but kept gasoline prices unchanged, Egypt's petroleum ministry said early on Thursday. Prices of 80-Octane, 92-octane and 95-octane petrol remained at EGP 8.75 ($0.2827), EGP 10.25 ($0.3312) and EGP 11.50 ($0.3716) respectively, the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Nigeria Evacuates Hundreds of Citizens from Hard-hit Sudan

Hundreds of Nigerians fleeing the fighting in Sudan were evacuated and brought back to the West African nation late Wednesday after days of delays that left many of them stranded in the desert and at the Egyptian border. More than 370 Nigerians, many of them students, arrived in the capital…

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Road Accident Leaves 14 Dead in Egypt

Fourteen people were killed and 25 injured after a public transport bus collided with a heavy transport truck on a desert highway in southwestern Egypt on Wednesday, medical and security sources said. The accident occurred on Assuit-Kharga highway, around 400 km (250 miles) southwest of Cairo, in New Valley province,…

Reuters

Bus-truck collision on Egyptian highway kills 17

Seventeen people were killed and 29 injured after a public bus and a heavy transport truck collided on a desert highway in southwestern Egypt, the health ministry said on Thursday.

Reuters

Egypt launches national dialogue amid ongoing security crackdown

Egypt launched a national political dialogue on Wednesday that authorities said was meant to generate debate around the country's future, though the chair of the event said several areas of discussion would be off limits.

Reuters

Explainer-Sudan's conflict: Who's backing the rival commanders?

Military rivals locked in a conflict that erupted in Sudan on April 15 both courted foreign backing in the years leading up to the fighting.

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Egypt Renews Calls for Ceasefire in Sudan

Egypt renewed on Tuesday calls for a ceasefire in Sudan, as clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) persisted. Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry stressed his country’s firm stance that urges a ceasefire and the importance of all parties committing to the truce. He met with envoy…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Arab League Calls for Ending War in Sudan

The Arab League called on Tuesday for the immediate cessation of all hostilities in Sudan and a complete ceasefire to save the Sudanese state, its institutions and facilities. Egypt chaired an emergency meeting of the organization, which convened at the level of permanent delegates, to follow up on the developments…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Blinken and Egypt’s Foreign Minister Discuss Sudan Ceasefire

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry discussed extending and expanding the ceasefire in Sudan during a call on Tuesday, the State Department said. "The Secretary and the Foreign Minister agreed to continue close US-Egypt consultation regarding ongoing efforts to achieve a durable cessation of…

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Contacts Intensify over Syria’s Return to Arab League

Jordan kicked off a series of contacts with Arab countries and officials in wake of its hosting of a meeting of regional envoys on Monday to discuss Syria’s return to the Arab League. The meeting was attended by the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq and Syria. Soon after…

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90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way Appears Guilty Of All Kinds Of Fakery And Bad Editing With Nicole And Mahmoud's Story

90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way is getting called out for possibly faking storylines after a hilarious editing error in Nicole and Mahmoud's story.

LiveScience

1st-century Buddha statue from ancient Egypt indicates Buddhists lived there in Roman times

Buddhists lived in Egypt during Roman times, a 1st-century Buddha statue found in Berenike suggests.

Daily Mirror

Mum accused of hacking son, 5, to death with machete before eating his head

The mother, identified only as Hanaa, was arrested after the remains of her five-year-old son Youssef were found by his uncle stuffed in a bucket at the family home in Abu Shalabi, Egypt

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