News stories by Reem Abbas

KHARTOUM, Nov 24 (IPS) - Earlier this year, when heavy rains caused massive flooding in Sudan, a three-month state of emergency was declared in September. The floods which began in July, were the worst the country experienced in the last three decades and affected some 830,000 people, including 125,000 refugees and internally displaced people.

KHARTOUM, Jun 26 (IPS) - This week, when Sudan's Minister of Energy and Mining Adil Ibrahim addressed the country, stating that households will face power-cuts for up to seven hours a day, people had already been sitting on plastic chairs outside their homes, scouring the internet to purchase battery-operated fans. This Northeast African nation has seen temperature highs of up to 41 degrees Celsius recently.

KHARTOUM, Jun 22 (IPS) - Omnia Nabil*, a Sudanese doctor, who worked in one of the largest hospitals in Khartoum, the country's capital, was devastated to witness the deaths of 50 young women who had unsafe abortions during a space of just three months.

KHARTOUM, Jul 10 (IPS) - Lawyers and rights activists are calling for a change in Sudan's laws which allow for the marriage of girls as young as 10.

KHARTOUM, Jul 02 (IPS) - More and more of Sudan's female politicians and rights activists are being arrested and detained in the government's clampdown on opposition political parties.

The multi-billion dollar Merowe Dam on the Nile River more than doubled Sudan's electricity supply, but its environmental impacts still remain unknown to the public and to the communities it affects.

The Sudanese government says that a majority of the tens of thousands of people displaced by the fighting in the country’s Blue Nile state have started returning to the area. This is despite reports by local and international aid agencies that say people are still fleeing the region.

Sudan is closest to civil war since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005.

While humanitarian organisations try to bury the corpses scattered across Southern Kordofan, aid to the thousands of people displaced by the fighting is slow as the country’s humanitarian commission has prohibited most aid organisations from working in the area.

While humanitarian organisations try to bury the corpses scattered across Southern Kordofan, aid to the thousands of people displaced by the fighting is slow as the country’s humanitarian commission has prohibited most aid organisations from working in the area.