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KHARTOUM, Feb 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A delegation of senior Sudanese officials, including the deputy leader of the country’s military-led ruling council, is headed to Russia for talks on cooperation, authorities said.

Sudan has found itself increasingly isolated since an Oct 25 coup that has seen foreign aid cut as part of the international community’s response to the military takeover.

24 Feb 2022; MEMO: The deputy head of Sudan's ruling council, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, headed to Moscow on Wednesday, saying he hoped to bolster ties with Russia in the latest in a series of foreign visits, Reuters reports.

Dagalo, who is widely known as Hemedti and commands Sudan's powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, was part of an October 25 military takeover that plunged the country into political and economic turmoil, and drew wide international condemnation.

20 Feb 2022; MEMO: Thousands of Sudanese staged fresh protests in the capital Khartoum on Sunday to demand full civilian rule, Anadolu reports.

Protesters chanted anti-military slogans and waved banners calling for civilian rule, as they marched towards the presidential palace in Khartoum, according to an Anadolu Agency reporter on the ground.

"No to military rule," and "Full civilian state" were among banners carried by protesters.

18 Feb 2022; MEMO: The vice president of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, nicknamed Hemedti, yesterday announced the release of detained peaceful protesters from the country's prisons, Anadolu reported.

Sudanese news agency SUNA said Hemedti, who is also commander of the Rapid Support Forces, announced the release of detained protesters without further details, as well as the release of all Rapid Support Forces employees convicted of disciplinary offences and the payment of their fines.

17 Feb 2022; MEMO: Scores of Sudanese lawyers yesterday took part in a protest outside the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Khartoum to call for the release of activists and political prisoners, Anadolu reported.

The Emergency Lawyers Committee, which organised the protest, said in a statement that it handed over a letter to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calling for it to help locate those forcibly disappeared and political prisoners.

KHARTOUM, Feb 13 (NNN-SUNA) – A Sudanese foreign ministry official said, the African Union (AU), yesterday voiced its support for a political settlement to the current crisis in the country.

Hassan Abdul-Salam Omer, general director of African affairs, at the Sudanese Foreign Ministry, made the remarks, when briefing reporters on the meeting between the country’s acting foreign minister, Ali Al-Sadiq and Bankole Adeoye, AU commissioner for political affairs, Peace and Security (AU-PAPS), in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

13 Feb 2022; MEMO: Sudan's military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Saturday dismissed Western threats of sanctions and said meetings between Sudanese and Israeli officials were part of security cooperation rather than political in nature, reported Reuters.

KHARTOUM, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Sudanese protesters marched in neighbourhoods across the capital and the country on Thursday in protest at October's military coup and a wave of political detentions.

The takeover ended a partnership between the military and civilian political parties, drawing international condemnation and plunging Sudan into political and economic turmoil.

Protests organised by neighbourhood resistance committees have drawn hundreds of thousands of people, and at least 79 have been killed and more than 2,000 injured in crackdowns.

KHARTOUM, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The United Nations special mission in Sudan is concluding consultations aimed at salvaging the country's democratic transition and will produce a summary document next week, a U.N. source told Reuters on Wednesday.

A military coup on Oct. 25 ended a two-year partnership with political parties. Since then, protesters have taken to the streets demanding a full handover of power to civilians and rejecting negotiations.

KHARTOUM, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations mission in Sudan on Thursday called on the Sudanese authorities to resolve the current political crisis through peaceful consultations.

Volker Perthes, head of the UN Integrated Transitional Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), made the appeal during a meeting with Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, the council said in a statement.