Recent violence by militias in North Darfur prompted authorities to declare a state of emergency on July 13.

Under the proposed amendment to the criminal code, anyone found guilty of performing the procedure would be sentenced to up to three years in prison.

Sudan’s prime minister survived an assassination attempt Monday after an explosion went off near his convoy in the capital of Khartoum, Sudan’s state media said.

A day after President Salva Kiir dissolved the previous government, opposition leader Riek Machar was sworn in as his deputy, an arrangement that twice collapsed in fighting during the conflict that killed nearly 400,000 people.

It is challenging work, especially in remote areas where mobile phone signals are absent and ground crews cannot quickly communicate coordinates to flight teams.

Photos of the emaciated lions shared to Facebook prompted activists to use the hashtag #SudanAnimalRescue.

The UN says the clashes between Arabs and non-Arabs have killed a total of 54 people and wounded dozens more.

Al-Bashir has been in custody since April, when Sudan’s military ousted him after months of nationwide protests. The uprising eventually forced the military into a power-sharing agreement with civilians.

Monday's protests renewed demands to step up an independent investigation into the deadly break-up of a protest camp in June, which resulted in dozens of causalities among the protesters.

The sit-in was the culmination of 16 weeks of protests that led to army officers turning against Bashir and replacing him with a military council.