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Near the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, eight children died in the explosion of an explosive. The children played with an object that suddenly exploded.

More than twenty school children between the ages of seven and sixteen drowned in waters along the Nile River in Sudan when their boat sank on the way to school. About forty students were on their way to school through an area along the Nile that had been flooded by heavy rains.

Salutation in Sudan: a 19-year-old teenage woman was sentenced to death after she stabbed her husband, but according to her lawyer she did so after she had been married off, trapped and raped, while being restrained by three men.

In Sudan, 24 women were to be charged with wearing inappropriate clothing, which meant they risked lashes, but the charge has nevertheless been withdrawn.

A Turkish Airlines aircraft was diverted after discovering a Wi-Fi network with the name 'bomb on board.' The plane flew from Nairobi to Istanbul, but forced a stopover in the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

The Russian ambassador to Sudan, Mirgajas Sjirinski, was found dead in his home in Khartoum on Wednesday. The police could not tell which he died. It was known, however, that Sjirinski camped with high blood pressure.

A Frenchman kidnapped in Chad in March and brought to Darfur has been released. He is on his way to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. That's what the authorities announced on Sunday. Paris confirmed the news.

Tens of thousands of South Sudanese have fled to Sudan this year. Definitely 31,000 people crossed the last two months, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, the border with the neighboring country over. It mainly concerns women and children.

The government calls the decision by Sudan to the Dutch UN official Ivo Freijsen not permit to give more,, incomprehensible '. Freijsen was told last month that he must leave the country. No official reason was given for the decision.

Fighting between Sudanese government forces and rebels driven into the mountainous region of Jebel Marra in Darfur have since mid-January more than 100,000 people to flee. The fighting persist and the aid is difficult because the areas where displaced persons are received are very remote. That the UN Organisation for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported Thursday.