Tag: South Kordofan

Sudan: Three churches burned down twice within one month

February 3, 2020 Sudan Blue Nile, Churches, NISS, South Kordofan, Sudan

Pulpit in the Al Gadaref Lutheran Church, eastern Sudan, following an arson attack in 2015. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Three churches in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state, rebuilt after arson attacks in December, were burned down again in January, reports a Sudanese rights organisation. On the evening of 28 December, the Sudan Internal Church, Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church in Bout town, near the border with South Sudan, . . . Read More

Sudan extends ceasefire with rebels

January 8, 2018 Sudan Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan

An extension to Sudan’s ceasefire with rebel fighters in the Kordofan region has given an opportunity for communities there to plant for this year’s harvest and avoid severe food shortages. Sudan’s president has extended the unilateral ceasefire until the end of March, reports Reuters. The latest break in Sudan’s long-running . . . Read More

Ceasefire holds but food shortage threatens Sudan’s Nuba people

November 14, 2017 Sudan East Africa, Education, Nuba Mountains, Sanctions, South Kordofan, SPLM-N, Sudan

A young girl grinds some grain in the shade of her home in the Nuba Mountains. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

The war planes may have gone and the bombings stopped, thanks to a ceasefire, but the people of Sudan’s Nuba Mountains are now battling another enemy: hunger. Six years of civil war between Sudan’s government troops and the SPLM-N rebels, fighting for self-determination, has destroyed communities and infrastructure in the . . . Read More

360° view of forgotten war in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

March 16, 2017 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Hassan Taour, Nuba Mountains, Petr Jašek, Religious freedom, Sharia, South Kordofan, Sudan, Trauma

News agency IRIN has produced a video that offers a 360° view of the situation of the people of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, a state in southern Sudan. (To experience a 360° view, play video, then “move” view by hovering your mouse.) The Nuba people, living on the border with . . . Read More

UN says 600,000 in need of food aid in S. Kordofan

February 10, 2017 Sudan Barack Obama, Blue Nile, Petr Jašek, Sanctions, South Kordofan, SPLM-N, Sudan, USA

A political impasse is delaying the delivery of aid to 600,000 people in need in Sudan’s war-torn South Kordofan region, writes Nuba Reports in the Huffington Post. Sudan has been bombing rebel groups based there, as well as destroying farmland and crops. Hope came from an agreed six-month ceasefire extension . . . Read More

Sudan detains 6 Christians, threatens to demolish 5 churches

October 12, 2016 Sudan African Union, Churches, Episcopal Church of Sudan, Gadaref, Hassan Taour, Kadugli, Khartoum, Kuwa Shamal, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan

Sudan has detained three church leaders and three church members, meanwhile warning five churches of impending demolition. The six, from the Evangelical Church in Wad Medani (200km southeast of the capital, Khartoum), were briefly arrested on Sunday (9 Oct.) after refusing an order to hand over to the government a . . . Read More

Despite human rights abuse, Sudan wants US talks

September 22, 2016 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Churches, Genocide, Hassan Taour, Kadugli, Khartoum, Kuwa Shamal, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, Petr Jašek, Religious freedom, Sanctions, Sharia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Sudan, USA

Senior Sudanese and US officials are due to meet today (22 Sep.) in New York to discuss a possible partial lifting of sanctions on Khartoum, Sudanese media reports have said. The hint at possible “rapprochement” between Washington and Khartoum comes despite continued human rights violations by the latter; the Islamist . . . Read More

Prosecutor demands ‘harshest punishment’ for pastors charged with highlighting Sudan Christians’ suffering

August 30, 2016 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Hassan Taour, Khartoum, Kuwa Shamal, Nuba Mountains, Peter Yen, Petr Jašek, Religious freedom, Sharia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, SPLM-N, Sudan, Yat Michael

A trial of four men, including two Sudanese church leaders and a foreign aid worker, resumed on 29 August in Khartoum, with Sudan’s prosecution accusing the defendants of highlighting alleged Christian suffering in war-ravaged areas of the country. The four defendants are a Czech Christian aid worker named Petr Jasek; . . . Read More

Sudan: Nuba Christians face food crisis

August 4, 2016 Sudan Blue Nile, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan

The Nuba Mountains region of South Kordofan in Sudan, with a high proportion of Christians in the predominantly Muslim country, has a looming food crisis, according to . A mixture of poor harvests, an extensive government campaign of bombing farmland and markets, and resultant high food prices, will mean severe . . . Read More

Sudan charges 5 Christians over church dispute

July 11, 2016 Sudan Bahri, Blue Nile, Gadaref, Hassan Taour, Kuwa Shamal, Nuba Mountains, Omdurman, South Kordofan, Sudan

A Sudanese court has charged five Christians over their attempt to stop an illegal acquisition of church property, according to a Christian advocacy group. On 10 July, 14 members of the Evangelical Church in Bahri were charged before the Bahri Criminal Court. All were fined between 300 and 500 Sudanese . . . Read More

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