World Jun 23

Sudan’s protest movement accepted an Ethiopian roadmap for a civilian-led transitional government, a spokesman said on Sunday, after a months-long standoff with the country’s military rulers — who did not immediately commit to the plan.

World Jun 18

Egypt's first democratically elected president, Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi, was buried under heavy security early on Tuesday, a day after his dramatic collapse and death inside a Cairo courtroom, his family and a member of his defense team said.

World Jun 17

The state TV says the 67-year-old Morsi was attending a session Monday in his trial on espionage charges when he blacked out and then died.

World Jun 15

The top U.S. diplomat to Africa said there must be an “independent and credible” investigation into the Sudanese military’s violent dispersal of a protest camp in the capital earlier this month, and the ruling military council said it would announce…

World Jun 12

Security forces have killed over 100 people in the capital and across the country in a sweeping crackdown, according to protest organizers.

World Jun 10

For the second day, shops and businesses were closed in the capital, Khartoum.

World Jun 09

Shops were closed and streets were empty across Sudan on Sunday, the first day of a general strike called for the start of the workweek by protest leaders demanding the resignation of the ruling military council.

World Jun 08

Pro-democracy protest leaders on Saturday called on Sudanese to take part in acts of civil disobedience in a bid to pressure the military to hand over power after the deadly break-up of their main sit-in in the capital of Khartoum…

World Jun 04

The protest movement comes one day after security forces cleared the demonstrators' main sit-in camp in Khartoum in a bloody crackdown.

World Jun 03

In videos posted online amid the early morning assault, civilians were seen running through streets lined with sit-in tents, heads down, as the sound of gunfire filled the air.