The scheme is designed to help children who have been traumatised by past events in their lives.
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The BBC's Zeinab Badawi attends a wedding breakfast in northern Sudan to witness the enduring beauty techniques of an 8th Century Kushite princess.
'The ultimate beauty' in a pill
While skin bleaching is a long-standing cosmetic staple across Sudan, a newer craze is sweeping the nation. Khartoum based journalist Yousra Elbagir explains why many young women are turning to prescription pills in order to achieve the curvaceous figures they see as the standard of beauty. (Photo: Pills on a spoon. Credit: PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)
In our series of letters from African journalists, Yousra Elbagir explores Sudanese women's appetite for weight gain pills.
Read more'Smugglers take' Eritrean asylum-seekers
James Copnall
Africa editor, BBC World Service
The United Nations refugee agency has voiced concern after 17 newly-arrived Eritrean asylum-seekers in eastern Sudan were taken by smugglers from a refugee camp.
The UNHCR denied reports that they had been kidnapped, saying they appeared to have had a prior arrangement with the smugglers. But the agency says it remains concerned for their welfare.
Sudan is a major transit point for people from the region who hope to migrate to Europe.
Strict visa rules now apply to people from six mainly Muslim countries, as well as all refugees.
Read moreHuman rights campaigner facing death penalty
In Sudan the prominent human rights activist Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, remains in jail after being detained by the authorities six months ago. So far there is no date for a trial. International campaigners have called for him to be released. His daughter Wafa, who is in Khartoum, told us about the charges he faces. (Picture; Mudawi Ibrahim Adam at The Front Line Defenders Dublin Platform for Human Rights in 2005. Credit - The Front Line Defenders.)
In our series of letters from African journalists, Yousra Elbagir criticises the Sudanese government's failure to get to grips with a cholera pandemic.
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Dr Tom Catena has been credited with performing over 1,000 operations a year during the civil war in Sudan.
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Why a bitter row has broken out between Egyptians and Sudanese on social media.
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