Sudan Family & Parenting

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  Young woman, 24, killed in car crash on trip to Sudan to see her cousin get married

  A young woman from Manchester died in a car crash in Sudan just hours after arriving for a family wedding. Malaz Elmosbah, from Wythenshawe , was killed in the crash in north African country on Sunday, August 27. The 24-year-old travelled to her family’s home country to attend a cousin’s wedding. Another of Malaz’s cousins, who lived in the country, and the driver of the car were also killed in the smash   Read More ...

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  Sudanese children of Islamic State militants released in Libya

  Four children from Sudan whose parents are believed to have been killed fighting for Islamic State in the Libyan city of Sirte last year were handed over to the Sudanese consul on Sunday for return to their country. Sirte was a stronghold for Islamic State from 2015-2016, when Libyan forces backed by US air strikes ousted the ultra-hardline group. Hundreds of foreign militants joined Islamic State in Sirte   Read More ...

• Sudanese children of Islamic State militants released in Libya

  Four children from Sudan whose parents are believed to have been killed fighting for Islamic State in the Libyan city of Sirte last year were handed over to the Sudanese consul on Sunday for return to their country. Sirte was a stronghold for Islamic State from 2015-2016, when Libyan forces backed by U.S. air strikes ousted the ultra-hardline group. Hundreds of foreign militants joined Islamic State in Sirte   Read More ...

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  Sudan’s constitutional court recognizes children born of Sudanese and S Sudanese parents

  The highest judicial body in Sudan has accepted to grant citizenship to children born of a Sudanese mother and South Sudanese father and vice versa, a Sudanese lawyer said. Refaat Mekkawi, Director of Al-Nas Center for Legal Aid in Khartoum, told Radio Tamazuj yesterday that the constitutional court has upheld a complaint presented by the centre regarding the case of Adil Burrei and others who have dual citizenship   Read More ...

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  'Gunmen killed my parents and slaughtered my neighbours': Heartbreaking reality for Sudan refugees

  Teenage war survivor Emmanuel Gatkuoth is remarkably composed as he details how militia gunmen killed his parents and then slaughtered his neighbours. Queueing for watery porridge with hundreds of other children scarred by South Sudan’s genocide , he says I could fill my notebook with his story. This tall boy who stares detachedly into the distance is not exaggerating. In a few weeks Emmanuel has encountered more atrocities than entire countries do in years   Read More ...

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  Sudan brings home baby of ISIS fighters slain in Libya

  Khartoum - Sudanese security agents on Monday brought home a four-month-old baby girl whose parents were killed in Libya while fighting for the jihadist Islamic State group, a security official said. The infant, born to Sudanese parents, was brought to Khartoum after the Libyan Red Crescent alerted Sudan's powerful National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS). "The mother and father of the baby were IS fighters who were killed in Sirte   Read More ...

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  Sudan brings home baby of IS fighters slain in Libya

  The infant, born to Sudanese parents, was brought to Khartoum after the Libyan Red Crescent alerted Sudan's powerful National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS). "The mother and father of the baby were IS fighters who were killed in Sirte during the fighting to liberate" the city from the group, the Sudanese Media Centre (SMC) reported Brigadier Tijani Ibrahim of NISS as saying. The baby's mother had travelled to Libya in   Read More ...