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Analysis by BBC Verify of videos showing fighters boasting of a massacre and later mocking survivors has identified those responsible as apparently belonging to Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support ...
Sudan, [c] officially the Republic of the Sudan, [d] is a country in Northeast Africa.It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the southeast, and South Sudan to the south.
Zeinab Badawi (Arabic: زينب بدوي; born October 1959) [1] is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist.She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News (later known as ITV News at 5:30), [2] and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow from 1989 to 1998 before joining BBC News.
Since gaining independence in 1956, Sudan has witnessed a protracted series of coups d'état, totalling 20 coup attempts, of which 7 were successful, [1] [note 1] which places Sudan as the African nation with the most coup attempts [2] and it ranks second globally, just behind Bolivia, which has recorded 23 coup attempts since 1950. [3]
An estimated 25 million people, equivalent to more than half of Sudan’s population, were said to be in need of aid. [7] In February 2024, the WFP struggles to provide aid, and there are already reports of people dying from starvation. [8] It is estimated that about 7.2 million people have fled their homes inside and outside the country.
It was finished by 6 May 2008 (with about 90% of the country covered by then; many people claimed, however, not to have been counted, but officials stated that in no state was the covering rate below 80%. [17]) Preliminary results that hit the press in early July claimed a population of about 38 million, with 3.8 million in Southern Sudan.
In Sudan, 97% of the population adheres to Islam, with the overwhelming majority being adherents of the Sunni branch and the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence. [20] The remainder of the population follows either animist and indigenous beliefs or Christianity, especially in Khartoum and in southern regions of the country bordering South Sudan.
Sudan is a member of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and is one of 11 COMESA nations that had joined in a free-trade area and agreed to eliminate tariffs on goods originating in member countries. [160] Sudan is a member of the economic union led by Libya known as the Community of Sahel-Saharan States. [160]