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Sudan Croc Dispatch 🐊25: Star Link in the Heart of the War
A cannon from Suakin. Captured by Smowal Abdulla
Hello there dear reader and welcome to the 25th issue from Sudan Croc Dispatch where you will read the monthly newsletter about business, tourism, travel, finance, technology, opportunities, and events in Sudan for February/2024.
Travel & Tourism
Travel & Tourism in Articles
Travel & Tourism in Videos
Travel & Tourism in Infographics & Photos
Malkhat al-Dar Mohamed Abdullah — described as a “pioneer of the literary feminist resistance” — was a Sudanese writer, educator and women’s right activist.
Source:
womensliteracysudan.blog/2021/03/25/mal…— afikra | عفكرة (@afikra)
2:52 PM • Feb 7, 2024
Her novel Faragh al-Arid (The Wide Void) is often seen as the first Sudanese work to be written in a social realist style and to depict the life of a working woman in Sudan.
— afikra | عفكرة (@afikra)
2:53 PM • Feb 7, 2024
The city of Kerma was the capital of the first Nubian or Kush kingdom between 2000 and 1650 BC. Nubia spanned the northern part of modern-Day Sudan and Southern Egypt, sitting between the first and fifth cataracts of the Nile.
📸Atlas Obscura
— afikra | عفكرة (@afikra)
10:01 AM • Jan 15, 2024
#السودان | البدء في إنشاء صالة الحج و العُمرة بمطار بورتسودان الدولي
#Sudan | Construction of the Hajj and Umrah lounge at Port Sudan International Airport begins.
— منصة صدى الطيران 🇸🇩 (@AviationEcho18)
7:57 AM • Feb 15, 2024
Discover the wall paintings from🔸#OldDongola 🔸 #Sudan nominated for RMF Classic's #MocArty award
👉
👏Photography & 3D editing: PCMA UW/ @Adrianchlebows3
#Vote 1/2— Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology UW (@PCMA_UW)
3:00 PM • Feb 13, 2024
Celebrations on Sudan TV on Arba3een (40) St as army breaks through south central Omdurman and reaches al-Mohandiseen.
Big victory for the army and the besieged residents relying on them for liberation from RSF terror.
— Yousra Elbagir (@YousraElbagir)
7:51 PM • Feb 16, 2024
The official poster for #Bougainvillea
In Deep Visions’ latest short fiction
Directed by #Yasir_Faiz, produced by @IndeepvisionsdSix women incarcerated during the #December2018 revolution in #Sudan, with a determination to dissolve fear by resisting for freedom.
— IN DEEP VISIONS (@Indeepvisionsd)
4:04 PM • Jan 27, 2024
Travel & Tourism in Headlines
The Sudanese consulate restored its operations in Jeddah
Source: @Hash_Sudan on X, Feb/2024
Passports factory in Atbara is now fully functional
Source: @Hash_sudan on X, Feb/2024
Sudanese embassy in Juba requested from the citizens who ordered the issuance of new passports at its establishment in Juba to not come to the embassy until the network connectivity is fully restored to Sudan
Source: @hash_sudan on X
Sudan Air - the National Sudanese airways - added Cairo and Muscat to its destinations and started trips between Port Sudan and Cairo and between Port Sudan and Muscat for the first time since the war broke
Source: @mhamdooun on X, Feb/2024
Air trips between Mitiga, Libya and Port Sudan, Sudan are to resume flights starting from March-2024
Source: Al-Motamayizoon travel agency, Feb/2024
Ministry of interior declared that it will be providing the service of issuing new passports via its online portal for the Sudanese citizens in Brussels at Belgium, Kuwait city at Kuwait, and Muscat at Oman
Source: Sudanese Ministry of Interior, Feb/2024
State of Khartoum is clear and safe from Cholera and Dengue fever
Source: Sudan Plus, Feb/2024
The Sudanese consulate at Aswan resumed issuing passports for the Sudanese citizens
Source: Sudan Plus, Feb/2024
Ministry of interior opened a new passports factory in Gedrarif state
Source: Sudan Plus, Feb/2024
The Sudanese embassy in Cairo, Riyadh restored its service of issuing passports for the Sudanese citizens
Source: Wakeep, Feb/2024
Dandurma - locla Sudanese ice cream brand - is relocating to Port Sudan after the devastating fall of Wad Medani last year
Source: Dandurma, Feb/2024
Business
Business in Articles
Business in Infographics & Photos
In light of the ongoing internet blackout in Sudan, the Orange Corners Sudan team has made the decision to proceed with the graduation ceremony for 32 entrepreneurs.
#OrangeCorners#249Startups#innovation#Sudan#entrepreneurship#OCan#OrangeCornersSudan#OCB5#OCD1#OCB6
— 249Startups (@249Startups)
2:54 PM • Feb 9, 2024
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned three entities (Alkhaleej Bank Co Ltd, Zadna International Co for Development Ltd, and Al-Fakher Advanced Works Co. Ltd.) for their role in undermining the peace, security, and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— U.S. Embassy Khartoum (@USEmbassyKRT)
4:19 PM • Jan 31, 2024
The same place destroyed in Souq Omdurman 😟
— Abdulaziz Mohammed 🇸🇩📷 (@AbdulazizMhame7)
4:10 PM • Feb 13, 2024
Business in Headlines
University of Khartoum is going to open an exams center in Saudi Arabia for its students
Source: @hash_Sudan on X, Feb/2024
University of Sudan for science and technology restored some of its administrative functions in Port Sudan
Source: @MoeAldirdeery on X, Feb/2024
University of Bahri opened an office in Gedarif to provide services to its students regarding issuing its certificates for the first time since the war broke
Source: @MoeAldirdeery on X, Feb/2024
International University of Africa opened an office for its engineering faculty in Port Sudan and another office for its arts faculty in Merawi to provide services to its students regarding the issuance of its certificates for the first time since the war broke
Source: @MoeAldirdeery on X, Feb/2024
Al-Neelain University started offering the service of issuing its certificates to its graduated students from all programs and faculties for the first time since the war broke
Source: @MoeAldirdeery on X, Feb/2024
Beyond Media participated in FOMEX at Saudi Arabia
Source: Beyond Media, Feb/2024
Omdurman Islamic University started offering the service of issuing its certificates to its graduated students from all programs and faculties for the first time since the war broke
Source: @sayafmustafa86 on X, Feb/2024
Makkah hospital for ophthalmology will open in Atbara in the first week in upcoming March-2024
Source: Arab Media, Feb/2024
Police opened a center for issuing and renewing driving licenses in Karari, Omdurman, Khartoum State
Source: Sudan Plus, Feb/2024
Presence of the vehicle owner is mandatory in the traffic police station at Karari Locality in Omdurman in the case of transferring ownership of his/her vehicle
Source: Wakeep, Feb/2024
The National Ribat University opened an office in Kassala to provide the service of issuing its certificates to its students
Source: Wakeep, Feb/2024
70% of the agricultural development plans failed due to the war
Source: Arab Media, Feb/2024
Sudan is the first country in the list of the top countries that are importing from Egypt with imports that have a value of half a billion American Dollars
Source: Arab Media, Feb/2024
Courts in Karari locality, Omdurman are to resume their duties for the first time since the war broke
Source: Sudan Plus, Feb/2024
Finance
Finance in Articles
Infographics and Photos
Finance in Headlines
Prices of 12.5 kg cooking gas in Khartoum State is set to 15.6 USD
Source: @hash_Sudan on X, Feb/2024
Syber Pay added the service of recharging Egyptian sim credit for its customers in Egypt
Source: Syber Pay, Feb/2024
Syber Pay added Fawry “Sudan” as a new method to recharge its digital wallet
Source: Syber Pay, Feb/2024
Sudan exported 3.7 tons of gold in the past three months
Source: Sudan Plus, Feb/2024
Gold exports are now stopped
Source: Arab Media, Feb/2024
MyCashi added added Fawry “Egypt” as a new method to recharge its digital wallet
Source: Cashi, Feb/2024
Syber Pay added a new service of paying to “Clinical” healthcare business
Source: Syber Pay, Feb/2024
Bank of Khartoum restored its operations in two branches: one in Al-Dilling and the other is in Assaliyah
Source: Bank of Khartoum, Feb/2024
Technology
Technology in Articles
Millions are still disconnected in Sudan's ongoing telecom blackout.
So much worry for residents of besieged areas - Madani, Khartoum, Bahri & southern Omdurman - where fighting has been most intense and the RSF have committed mass atrocities + occupied civilian homes.
— Yousra Elbagir (@YousraElbagir)
4:48 PM • Feb 14, 2024
Sudan's internet has faced atleast 4 shutdowns in 5 years, and the latest one, which happened on February 2, 2024, sparked UN calls for restoration. Meanwhile, their military seeks solace in Starlink.
#TCDaily
— TechCabal👨🏾🚀 (@TechCabal)
6:39 AM • Feb 14, 2024
Join us for an exclusive workshop, "Streamline Your Business with Odoo" as part of our strategic partnership with Odoo.
📅 Date: Thursday 25 January 2024
⏲ Time: 2pm-3pm Khartoum time
🔗 Location: Online webinaryoutube.com/live/YDCuUu4pm…
#Sudan#SMEs
— 249Startups (@249Startups)
11:57 AM • Jan 25, 2024
Technology in Headlines
A Sudanese citizen managed to drive a driverless car remotely using his laptop in the midst of the war hardships at Atbara
Source: Wakeep, Feb/2024
Zain telecom network restored its operations to River Nile State after it was cut on Feb/4/2024
Source: @sayafmustafa86 on X, Feb/2024
The Government banned the civilians from using Star Link internet devices
Source: @Sudan_tweet on X, Feb/2024
Zain is fixing its servers in Port Sudan
Source: @almaleekah on X, Feb/2024
Coral Hotel in Port Sudan offered the service of wireless broadband internet connectivity for 16 USD per hour in the midst of mobile networks shutdown by the RSF on the 4th of Feb
Source: @Sudan_tweet, Feb/2024
Sudani Telecom Network managed to restore its systems, services, and servers and cancelled Friday weekend vacation for its employees to serve its customers in the middle of the crisis
Source: Sudani, Feb/2024
Events
Past Events
Opportunities
Tenders, RFPs, RFQs, Bids
Grants, Awards, Contests
Jobs
Courses
Fellowships and Scholarships
Conclusion
That’s it for this month. Don’t forget to share this newsletter with your friends, family, and those who’re interested.
Cheers,
Ahmed El-Affendi.
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