The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is expected to double Ethiopia’s electricity generation and impact River Nile flows Sudan Egypt. We analyse potential economy-wide impacts on Sudan...

Nada M. A. Suliman, Anne N. Åstrøm, Raouf W. Ali, Hussein Salman, Anne C. Johannessen 5, § Section for pathology, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Department of Clinical Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Faculty of Dentistry, University of Science and Technology, Umdurman, Sudan Dermatology Clinic, Khartoum Teaching Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan Haukeland Unive...

INTRODUCTION Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an emerging viral zoonosis that impacts human and animal health. It is transmitted from animals to humans directly through exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues of infected animals or via mosquito bites. The disease is endemic to Africa but has recently spread to Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Our aim was to compare two major outbreaks of RVF in Saudi Arabi...

http://www.sudanjp.org 4 Continuing its set goals towards the future well-being of children, this issue of the Sudanese Journal of Paediatrics (SJP) addresses management of the common and rare. The first review article highlights the causes, management and outcome of congenital hypothyroidism (CH), which is the commonest preventable cause of mental retardation worldwide. It also calls for a nat...

Sudan possesses large population of cattle in Africa. Sudanese cattle are broadly classified into two breeds: Nilotic cattle and North Sudan Zebu cattle. Types that are related to North Sudan Zebu cattle include: Kenana, Butana (Rofaah), White Nile, Western Sudan Baggara, Foja (Dar Al-Reeh cattle), Qash cattle (Baraka cattle), Arashie cattle, Red Um Bororo, Ingessana cattle and Sudanese Fulani....

EARLIER HISTORY OF MEDICAL RESEARCH IN THE SUDAN 1903-1948 ORGANIZED MEDICAL RESEARCH in the Sudan, which was a development of the early years of this century at a time when proper medical administration in the country was hardly in existence, owed its inception to the initiative of a great humanitarianMr. (later Sir) Henry S. Wellcome-the founder of what is known today as the Wellcome Foundati...

BACKGROUND Following decades of conflict, South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011. Prolonged conflict, which included gender-based violence (GBV), exacerbated gender disparities. This study aimed to assess attitudes towards gender inequitable norms related to GBV and to estimate the frequency of GBV in sampled communities of South Sudan. METHODS Applying a community-based participa...

Sudan is a large country with an area of 1.88 million Km2, and has the second largest animal population in Africa consisting of 52.08 million sheep, 43.44 million goats, 41.76 million cattle and 4.62 million camels (MARF, 2013). The majority of animal wealth is concentrated in western Sudan (40%), followed by central Sudan (23%) (MARF, 2011). Minerals are divided into two groups, macro-minerals...

In his introductory presentation to the Forth Conference of the Sudan Association of Paediatricians (SAP) [1], which was held in Port Sudan (15th-16th February 1975), and in the President Speech (in Arabic) [2], the late Professor Mahmoud Mohamed Hassan [3] emphasized that investment on child welfare is rewarded by prosperity of a nation, as has been acknowledged and implemented by Developed Co...