Within the scope of its reintegration program, the North Sudan Commission for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) dispatched yesterday 25 tractors with accessories to Blue Nile State.

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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) today launched an emergency relief effort to deliver food and supplies to thousands of people driven from their homes by floods that have inundated dozens of communities across central Sudan.

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The President of Sudan, Omar Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir, has affirmed the Government of National Unity’s determination and keenness on actualizing development and prosperity through long-term strategic programs.

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Sudan is exporting around 230,000 barrels per day of Dar Blend crude this month and next, up by nearly half from earlier this year thanks to the launch of a new terminal, a shipping source said on Wednesday.

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Government expenditure over funding motivation of the agriculture program was estimated at SD. 53.3 billion a proportion of 39.7% from the total budget allocated for the program, according to various recent reports.

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The United Nations is rushing vital emergency supplies - including plastic sheeting, blankets, cooking sets, jerry cans, sleeping mats and mosquito nets - to thousands of people affected by flooding in northern Sudan.

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Khartoum State has affirmed its commitment to prioritize implementation of all developmental and service projects incorporated in its 5-year plan. In a press conference that included the State Minister of Urban Planning, the Minister of Information, Sayed Haroun stated that what has been implemented by the Ministry of Urban Planning and Khartoum Water Corporation should be labelled as a quality step.

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The Council of Ministers, chaired by President of the Republic Omer Al-Bashir, will be carrying out urgent measures for the relief of the people who are affected by the torrential rains and floods in a number of Sudanese states.

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Kuwait-based International Investment Group (IIG) is part of a group of investors setting up a bank in Sudan with a paid-up capital of $1 billion, the firm said in a statement yesterday.

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Vice President Ali Osman Mohammed Taha commended the supporting stances of the Arab Republic of Syria towards the Sudan at all the regional and international foras.

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Amid fears that the River Nile could inundate areas near Khartoum, the Sudanese Red Crescent on 5th July sent hundreds of tents to Rabak, south of the city, where flash floods have left thousands homeless.

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White Nile chairman Phil Edmonds has recently returned from a meeting in Juba, where he met Vice President of Southern Sudan government Riek Machar and Paul Mayom, the Minister of Interior and Chairman of Nile Petroleum Corp.

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A South African businessman, Zwelakhe Sisulu has said he is going to establish a satellite television channel in Juba, south Sudan within the next year. Juba, after the peace agreement signed last year, is now a much more secure place to situate the station.

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South Sudan has spent $9.5 million to bail out the autonomous region’s biggest bank, privately owned Nile Commercial Bank Plc, after an ambitious expansion forced a restructuring.

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The Sudanese government of national unity has agreed to maintain concessions for the French oil company Total with regard to oil exploration in Block 5, according to reports.

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The Ministry of Social Affairs for Khartoum State and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have announced the launch of an alternative family care for abandoned and orphaned children in northern Sudan.

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The 446 kilometer-long Babanousa-Wau railway line that links between north and south Sudan has become free of landmines, said the General Director of the National Centre for Combating Land-Mines Col. Al-Awad Al-Bashir Ali.

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Inaugurating St. Paul and Peter Chapel today, Catholic Archbishop Paulino Lokudu has urged all of the youth of New Sudan, especially those from the Jondoru area, to seriously take charge of constructing decent houses within their home stage.

China's top state-run energy group, China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), has signed an agreement with the Sudanese government to prospect for oil and gas in Sudan's northern territory, a local newspaper said on Monday.

The circulation of the Sudanese Dinar as legal tender in Southern Sudan ended on Saturday in all parts of the region.