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EU sanctions Wagner subsidiary in Sudan after CNN investigation into gold exploitation

London CNN  —  The European Union has sanctioned a Russian national and the subsidiary of Russia’s Wagner Group in Sudan, Meroe Gold, for facilitating the exploitation of Sudan’s gold wealth, after a CNN investigation into the group’s activities last July. The EU named a Russian national – Mikhail Potepkin – and Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group …

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Pope Francis pleads for peace as he meets South Sudanese people displaced by war

Juba, South Sudan CNN  —  Pope Francis called for peace on Saturday as he met a group of several hundred South Sudanese people internally displaced by war at an event in the country’s capital Juba. “I want to renew my forceful and heartfelt appeal to end all conflict and to resume the peace process in …

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Pope Francis to visit two fragile African nations

Pope Francis starts a trip on Tuesday to two fragile African nations often forgotten by the world, where protracted conflicts have left millions of refugees and displaced people grappling with hunger. The Jan. 31-Feb 5 visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan, takes the 86-year-old pope to places where Catholics make …

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Sudan’s Framework Agreement

More than 40 political parties, movements and various armed factions signed a framework agreement with Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, commander of the Sudanese army, which will see administration of the state will be transferred to a civilian authority that governs the country transitionally for a period of two years. The role of the military institution …

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Consultations under way between Egypt, Sudan on Ethiopian dam

Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit said that consultations are ongoing between Egypt and Sudan from one side and international parties on the other to address the file of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). In an interview with Al Arabiya Al Hadath news channel, Abul Gheit added that the Nile Basin’s downstream countries …

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