Sudanese with disabilities organised demonstrations in Khartoum and other cities yesterday to reject the military coup and the political agreement and to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities that took place last week. More demonstrations took place in the country.
To mark International Human Rights Day today, which is observed every year on 10 December, the United Nations in Sudan has issued a statement acknowledging “the courage and determination of the people of Sudan to fight for a democratic society in which their rights and freedoms are respected, whoever they are”. The UN also pledges …
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At least 138 have now died in the conflicts that have unfolded in West Darfur recently. Leaders of Arab tribes and the Misseriya tribe signed a non-aggression pledge yesterday concerning the conflict in Jebel Moon, which has cost the lives of at least 42. Attacks continued in other areas.
The controversial political agreement signed on November 21 by Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, leader of the military junta that seized power in Sudan in a coup d’état on October 25, and Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, is “an intermediate stage that allows avoiding the worst effects of the coup, including bloodshed, international isolation, and Sudan’s …
The Chairman of the Sovereignty Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, has accused foreign ambassadors and diplomatic missions, whom he did not name, of “moving and inciting against the Sudan Armed Forces”.