Exciting new discoveries have surfaced from the sands of Old Dongola, where archaeologists from Warsaw University have found the remains of what may be the largest known church in medieval Nubia

The military government rejected the request for a UN fact-finding mission to send an international force to protect civilians from the civil war

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation labelled the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces as 'a rebel force': the first time an international body has used this definition in a resolution

The country has declared a cholera epidemic, with 22 deaths recorded in the past weeks; WHO recently made known that 78 cholera deaths were recorded in Sudan between 1 January and 28 July this year

The head of the Sudanese army, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, will move his headquarters to Omdurman, the twin city of the capital Khartoum, to personally lead military operations