Sudan crisis
14 May
Sudan has never known stability and so when there was a problem in the area called Darfur, in the South, the government of the day recruited some thugs called Janjaweed, which mean Arabs riding on camels, to come in and help them put down the disturbance in Darfur.
12 May
Warplanes roared overhead as explosions rocked Khartoum on Friday, just hours after Sudan's warring parties agreed to respect humanitarian principles in their spiralling conflict, without a truce in sight.
10 May
The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has confirmed that the tenth batch of evacuees from Sudan are already done with their documentation.
10 May
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will provide the necessary support to ensure that Nigerian students evacuated from war-torn Sudan are integrated into the nation’s universities.
10 May
Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, yesterday, boasted that no country has replicated Federal Government’s efforts in rescuing citizens from crisis-torn Sudan.
9 May
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) said 1,730 Nigerians have returned from Sudan, with the latest flight from Port Sudan with 146 evacuees aboard Tarco Airline.
8 May
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), yesterday, disclosed that 1,471 evacuees from Sudan had arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
8 May
France, in the colonial era, had understood what Sudan represented in the occupation of Africa as a struggle between the Arab and the West. Hence to distance itself from unwholesome struggle, it tagged sub-Saharan Africa, from Mauritania through Mali and Burkina Faso to Niger and Chad, Western Sudan.
6 May
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) says about 1,700 Nigerians remaining in Sudan will be evacuated “in a matter of days”.
5 May
The second batch of Nigerian evacuees returning from Sudan has arrived in Abuja.
5 May
Nigerian flag carrier, Air Peace, has evacuated 277 Nigerians from Egypt amidst the ongoing crisis in Sudan.
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