Protesters in Sudan’s Northern State continued to block the highway that connects Egypt and Sudan yesterday for the fifth consecutive day in protest against the increase in electricity prices, despite the government’s announcement that electricity prices would be frozen.
An 18-year-old secondary school student was shot dead near Tur in Central Darfur earlier this week. The driver of a passenger vehicle was killed in Kabkabiya in North Darfur. In neighbouring Kutum, the police station was torched. Various armed robberies were reported in North, Central, and West Darfur. People living east of El Geneina fear …
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The Sudanese Human Rights and Development Organisation (HUDO) recently reported the killing of two farmers in two separate incidents in Abu Jubeiha in South Kordofan in end December. On January 1, the passengers of two lorries were robbed of their belongings in the area of Abu Kershola. In Dalami, a water pump was stolen.
Security forces stormed the headquarters of the Al Araby satellite TV channel in Khartoum and detained correspondent Islam Saleh, cameraman Wael El Hasan, and some of their colleagues while covering the yesterday’s Marches of the Millions in Khartoum.
A young protester died after he was shot in the abdomen by security forces during yesterday’s Marches of the Millions, the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors reported. Dozens of protesters were wounded in Khartoum North and other places during the demonstrations, which took place all over Sudan.