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A Sudanese refugee has been sentenced to 16 years jail for rape and attempted rape after he lay in wait for victims before dragging them into a graveyard in Hull, which was named a City of Sanctuary last year.

The Obama administration reportedly dispensed taxpayer money to the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) — a Sundanese al-Qaeda affiliate — after U.S. officials were informed the group was a designated terror group.

A migrant from Sudan has been convicted of posing as a cab driver and raping a vulnerable woman to reenact a ‘fake taxi’ porno in Hull, England.

The New York Times reported on Thursday that U.S. Army Green Berets have been quietly working with Saudi forces in Yemen since late last year, allegedly in contradiction of official statements that America gave only logistical and intelligence support to the Saudi-led campaign against Iran-backed Houthi insurgents. The news comes as Sudan considers withdrawing from participation in the Saudi intervention, which has now been in progress for over three years.

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During his first full year in office, President Trump delivered on his campaign promise to limit refugee admissions to the United States from countries that are known hotbeds of terrorism.

Sudan has detained a Reuters stringer and a report for Agence France-Presse (AFP) who were covering sometimes violent protests against rising food prices and government austerity measures.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s tour of Africa seems to have paid off, as the energy minister of Chad announced an agreement to bring Turkish investors into his country’s oil market on Thursday.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly “laughed” off an International Criminal Court (ICC) request to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for alleged genocide and war crimes.

The UK will spend £180 million of taxpayers’ money over five years in Africa in an effort to convince migrants to stay where they are, reintegrate, or “return home”.

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Sudan formally announced on Thursday that it would cut ties with North Korea, the U.S. State Department confirmed. The Trump administration has worked to isolate North Korea on the global stage.

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The Trump Administration announced that it is permanently lifting some sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Sudan this month, extending and enhancing Obama-era Sudan policy.

The State Department announced the anticipated easing of most sanctions against the war-torn African regional power Sudan Friday, claiming the increasing compliance of perennial pariah Omar al-Bashir’s regime in international affairs, effective October 12.

Over 500 migrants have been evacuated by French police from a migrant camp in a suburb of the northern French city of Dunkirk.

Russia’s ambassador to Sudan, Mirgayas Shirinsky, was found floating in his swimming pool in Khartoum on Wednesday. He is the fourth Russian ambassador in nine months to die on the job.

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AFP — Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on Sunday declared Sudan the 39th province of the worldwide Anglican Communion, six years after the predominantly Christian south gained independence from the north. The Anglican church in Sudan, a majority Muslim country,

Qatar, Sudan, and Turkey are supporting terrorism in war-ravaged Libya, considered a breeding ground for jihadists, according to a spokesman for the Libyan army.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday that the new US ban on travellers from six mainly Muslim countries was “truly shameful”.

The Trump administration moved quickly on Monday’s partial victory in the Supreme Court’s ruling that let stand most of Executive Order 13780’s temporary travel ban on residents of six Muslim majority countries by establishing strict rules for visa applicants that narrowly defined the Court’s “bona fide relationship” qualification.

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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir indicated through his state media on Friday that he would not attend this weekend’s Islamic Summit in Saudi Arabia, at which U.S. President Donald Trump will be a guest of honor.

Saudi officials close to the king say Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been invited to an upcoming summit in the Saudi capital with President Donald Trump and world leaders from across the Muslim world.

While Israelis here are celebrating the country’s Independence Day today, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passed a resolution disavowing Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem and ignoring Jewish ties to the religion’s holiest sites.

In late March, speaking with barely controlled anger, Dutch Minister for International Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen told Dutch TV, “The leaders of South Sudan are bastards who starve their own people!”

Three refugee boys from Iraq and Sudan pleaded guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges on Apr. 4 after sexually brutalizing a five-year-old, developmentally disabled child in Twin Falls, Idaho in June while filming the attack.

Texas state lawmakers are adamant that taxpayer dollars will not be used to enrich countries that sponsor terrorism. Legislators filed bills to prohibit governmental entities in the state from doing business with Iran, Sudan, or companies that do business with a foreign terrorist organization.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nothing has changed in Sudan since the United States labeled atrocities against non-Arab villagers in the country’s Darfur region a “genocide” more than a decade ago, proclaimed an activist at a congressional panel.