Month: April 2022

A compact digest of the past week’s most-read highlights, from the heart of Sudan.

At least 42 people have been killed, and 27 injured in a series of attacks on the disputed Sudan-South Sudan border area of Abyei yesterday. Abyei’s Security Advisor, Kiluk Kon, told Radio Dabanga’s Voice of the States programme: “the attack on Ameit market amounted to 27 dead and 26 injured, the attack in Nong amounted …

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Sudan’s emergency lawyers condemned the security force’s recent violent campaign against activists in Khartoum. The lawyers stated, groups of “heavily armed forces stormed a number of houses belonging to activists, firing bullets and tear gas cannisters into their homes”, on Monday.

Abdelshakour Barma (24) was killed, and his father, Barma Tarboush, was wounded in an armed attack in the Sirba locality of West Darfur on Monday.

Two defence lawyers were caught on a hot mic saying racist comments against the recently dismissed Director General of the Public Authority for Radio and Television, Luqman Ahmed, during a live broadcast of his trial on Sudan’s official news agency (SUNA), who later took down the video.