A year into Sudan's civil war, Iranian-made armed drones have helped the army turn the tide of the conflict, halting the progress of the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Force and regaining territory around the capital, a senior army source has said. Six Iranian sources, regional officials and diplomats -- who, like the army source, asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the information -- also said the military had acquired Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the past few months. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) used some older UAVs in the first months of the war alongside artillery batteries and fighter jets, but had little success in rooting out RSF fighters embedded in heavily populated neighborhoods in Khartoum and other cities, more than a dozen Khartoum residents said.

A drone attack on an open market south of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, has killed at least 40 people, activists and medical workers said, as the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) battle for control of the country. At least 70 others were injured in the attack in Khartoum's Mayo neighbourhood on Sunday, according to resistance committees and two healthcare workers at the Bashair University Hospital, where the casualties were treated. Many of them will require amputations. The group posted footage on social media showing bodies wrapped in white sheets in an open yard at the hospital. Reporting from Khartoum, Al Jazeera's Hiba Morgan said the drone attack was carried out by the Sudanese army.

Bryan Stern and Mark Geist discusses helping Americans out of a war zone after being left behind by the Biden admin. The U.S. has evacuated its first group of American citizens and permanent residents from Sudan since war broke out in the capital weeks ago. The land evacuation started Friday with efforts to bus a large group of Americans to the Red Sea via Port Sudan. Officials revealed Saturday that unmanned aircraft provided armed overwatch as a bus convoy carried 200 to 300 Americans over 500 miles. Smoke is seen in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday, April 19, 2023.

Moatasem Jibril, a young man from Sudan, is realising his dream of conducting technological experiments to manufacture robots by using recycled electronic waste. Despite modest capabilities and living in a mud house in the city of Omdurman, west of the capital, Khartoum, Jibril did not give up on his dream of making a robot, even after having to quit university due to the deteriorating economic conditions of his family. For about ten years, Jibril has been trying to create robots in a narrow space inside his family house, and he challenges poverty by working daily in the market to earn money to purchase the materials he needs for his project. He hopes that his dream will be funded by any businessman or institution. Sudan is suffering from many crises, starting with a shortage of basic and imported commodities, as well as the depreciation of the local currency, in addition to the government's measures to lift fuel subsidies at the request of the International Monetary Fund in 2021.

Wading through waist-deep water, residents of the al-Shigla neighbourhood in Omdurman, twin city of Sudan's capital Khartoum, tried to rescue what was left of their possessions as they floated by. Others stood by in despair, observing the aftermath of days of torrential rains that brought record-breaking flash floods to the country where the Blue and White Niles join to become the Nile River. Pieces of furniture, broken tiles, damaged vehicles and more were washed away by this year's rain that fell profusely and continuously for nearly two weeks. The rain and flooding exceeded records set in 1946 and 1988, killing more than 100 people and forcing the government to declare a three-month state of emergency this week. To many Sudanese like Amna Ahmed, seasonal rains, in and of themselves, are nothing new.

Sudanese radiologist Dr Hania Fadl speaks with reporters in 2015 at the Khartoum Breast Care Centre (KBCC), which she opened in 2010 and equipped with screening and anesthetic equipment despite financial advisers' warnings to abandon the project. The mammogram is one of medical science's best tools for detecting breast cancer, but when the typically painful test reveals a potential problem, women frequently undergo breast biopsies for a closer look--a practice that's all too often unnecessary, according to a group of artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, and which doctors may be able to significantly reduce thanks to a little insight from computers. Announced today, researchers from Houston Methodist have developed AI software that can interpret mammogram results a full 30 times quicker than doctors and with 99 percent accuracy, according to the team's recent study. Published in the journal Cancer, the study found that the software was able to intuitively translate patient charts into diagnostic information for human review at top speeds, which offers doctors reliable and seriously time-saving support when it comes to assessing patient cancer risk and the need for further tests. To determine the software's effectiveness for assessing breast cancer risk, the team provided its AI with mammogram and pathology reports of 500 breast cancer patients, as well as information on diagnostic features and correlated mammogram findings for breast cancer subtypes.

Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), have been used for more than three decades, but in the last few years drones are increasingly being developed and used for commercial purposes.

I was invited as a keynote speaker in Khartoum – Sudan on November 27 and November 28 2017 by Lutfi Self Development Centre (Lutfi SDC Sudan) It was big event in Khartoum and opening speech was done by Sudan central bank officials. It was amazing experience and lot of learning came out. The event was attended by MTN, Oracle, GSMA and many big names of the industry. I presented my topic of AI in FinTech focused on my area of advocacy on how AI is reinventing FinTech by disrupting and non disrupting methodologies.

I was invited as a keynote speaker in Khartoum – Sudan on November 27 and November 28 2017 by Lutfi Self Development Centre (Lutfi SDC Sudan) It was big event in Khartoum and opening speech was done by Sudan central bank officials. It was amazing experience and lot of learning came out. The event was attended by MTN, Oracle, GSMA and many big names of the industry. I presented my topic of AI in FinTech focused on my area of advocacy on how AI is reinventing FinTech by disrupting and non disrupting methodologies.