Prisons and Medical Services; the Impact of War on Khartoum – Aljazeera and Al-Arabiya Report

Above, screengrabs from the Aljazeera report on security breaches in Sudanese prisons, and below, opening scene from Al Arabiya’s brief headlines report on the health crisis in Khartoum. Background to This Week’s Texts The two texts below are an excellent resource for testing your intermediate to upper- intermediate grasp of rapid, dense, headline-based snapshot reports

The Taiman Herbalists of Omdurman

Background to This Week’s Text This week’s text is a 4-minute interview by S24 Sudania TV with the softly spoken and kindly al-Sadiq Babekir al-Haadi Mohammad Awad, descendent of the famous Taiman brothers (Twins), founders of one of the earliest and most respected herbal medicine, perfumes and spices businesses (perfumery/herbalists/ spice merchants/ apothecary) based in