As a young musician growing up in Port Sudan in the early 1990s, Noori Jaber fortuitously stumbled across the neck of a well-preserved guitar near a junkyard. After being gifted a tambour – a ...

The outbreak of a revolution is one of the most transformative and socially vibrant processes that can occur in human societies. So when the members of Ostinato Records, an independent record label in ...

This album is a soundtrack of Sudan's revolution. In late 2021, Ostinato Records returned to Khartoum, Sudan shortly after a November military coup and country-wide protests to capture the sound of an ...

Noureddine Jaber, a musician with a unique part-guitar, part-tamboura instrument, is giving voice to Sudan’s long-marginalized eastern communities through a new album. Hailing from the Red Sea city of ...

Known as "Beja's Omdurman," the Daim Arab neighborhood is a gathering spot for the chieftains and members of Beja tribe, the biggest population group in eastern Sudan. Located in Port Sudan, the ...

ASMARA, June (Reuters) – Disease, drought and conflict have reduced livestock in rebel-held eastern Sudan by about 40 percent over the past five years, endangering the lifestyle of thousands of Beja ...