To find an association between smoking and the development of myocardial infarction in male patients above forty years of age presenting at the echocardiology department of Sudan heart center Khartoum. A prospective cohort study was carried out at the echocardiography department of Sudan Heart Center in Khartoum-Sudan between July 2012 and June 2014. The study population comprised a total of 16...

A new genus is proposed for the strikingly patterned African vespertilionid "Glauconycteris" superba Hayman, 1939 on the basis of cranial and external morphological comparisons. A review of the attributes of a newly collected specimen from South Sudan (a new country record) and other museum specimens of "Glauconycteris" superba suggests that "Glauconycteris" superba is markedly distinct ecomorp...

1National Malaria Control Programme, Khartoum, Sudan (Correspondence to E.M. Malik: [email protected]). Singa Teaching Hospital, Singar, Sinnar State, Sudan. 3University of Juba, Juba, Sudan. ABSTRACT A cross-sectional study explored the clinical and laboratory aspects of malaria among children presenting with fever to 2 paediatric hospitals in Khartoum state during the low transmission s...

This paper was originally presented at the annual conference of the Sudan Studies Association (SSA) at Purdue University in 2010, and has been adapted for this publication. At the SSA meeting, we had the opportunity to present our work on a computer-supported methodology for extracting and analyzing over-time network data based on open source text data about the Sudan, and to receive feedback f...

Framing the Issue The Republic of South Sudan is comprised of three provinces—Bahl el Ghazal, Equatoria and Greater Upper Nile, which are subdivided into 10 states: Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Western Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap, Lakes (Bahr el Ghazal); Unity, Upper Nile, Jonglei (Greater Upper Nile); and Western Equatoria, Central Equatorial (which contains Juba, the national capital) and Eastern Equa...

1Centre for Science and Technology, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan. 2Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, College of Medicine, University of Juba, Juba, Sudan. ABSTRACT To find the determinants of malaria mortality among displaced people, a cross-sectional descriptive study using verbal autopsy was carried out in 2 camps in Khartoum state, Sudan. The heads of 856 households...

The socioeconomic importance of camels (Camelus dromedarius) could not be neglected in the Sudan. The present study was planned to confirm the presence of piroplasmosis in camels from the Eastern region of the Sudan (Gedarif State) using microscopical (blood film) and molecular technique (PCR). A total of 55 camels of different sexes (34 females and 21 males) were sampled from four localities o...

This paper summarizes the status of the global dracunculiasis eradication campaign as of early 2002. Of the 20 countries that were endemic when the campaign began, seven have already interrupted transmission, four countries reported less than 100 cases each, and only five countries reported more than 1,000 cases each in 2001. Only 14,000 cases remained outside Sudan in 2001. Sudan reported 78% ...

The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) has a long history of siding with civil protestors in times of national political crisis. In recent years, waves of popular protests, often called the Arab Spring, have affected political developments across the Arab world. This CMI Insight analyzes what role the military may have, should similar calls for political change also reach Sudan. It does so by examining t...

This paper aims to offer an overview of a unique and decade-long Ethiopian peacekeeping deployment in Abyei, where contingents comprise almost the entire force, ended ungraceful manner because disapproval from government Sudan. The reveals that Tigray conflict which resulted desertion peacekeepers Egyptian pressure on Sudan GERD have contributed withdrawal Ethiopia–Sudan border dispute brought ...