Month: January 2022

Anger and sadness prevailed throughout Sudan after seven demonstrators were killed and more than 100 were wounded during the March of Millions on Monday. The country witnessed an overall quiet yesterday, as most of the Sudanese joined the two-day campaign of civil disobedience called for by the resistance committees. A number of cities witnessed street …

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Three men were killed and 20 people were injured in Darfur last weekend. In eastern Chad, 21 women refugees from Darfur were attacked with knives. In an armed robbery near Seleia in West Darfur on Saturday evening, two people were killed and three others were injured.

A farmer and a guard were killed in two separate incidents in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, last week. Two policemen and four civilians were wounded in firefights and armed robberies. Many Nuba fear that South Kordofan will become ‘a second Darfur’.

Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, Commander-in-chief of the Sudan Armed Forces and head of the Sovereignty Council, decided on Tuesday to form a fact-finding committee that will investigate the violence used against protesters during the March of Millions on January 17. Rebel movements have condemned the violence. People reported attacks on mourners. A number of detained …

El Burhan orders an investigation into Sudan ‘January 17 massacre’ Read More »

The Wali (Governor) of Darfur, Minni Minawi, has confirmed the start of operations to recover the goods looted from the former United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) headquarters in El Fasher. The base in the North Darfur capital was initially plundered on December 24-25, and was subsequently cleared of much of what was left, …

Minawi: ‘Operation launched in Darfur to recover looted UNAMID goods’ Read More »