Since March, fires have destroyed three villages in the localities of Um Rawaba and Bara in North Kordofan state, destroying 242 homes and displacing hundreds of families. A 5-year-old child also died in a house fire in Dar El Salaam locality, North Darfur, on Wednesday evening.
Acting Undersecretary of the Sudan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Nader Youssef El Tayeb, has handed over a matrix to members of the UN Security Council in New York, that includes the government’s requirements from the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) to assist with democratic transition in Sudan.
A delegation from the Sudanese Teachers Committee held a meeting yesterday with Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, President of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council, in order to review the committee’s unmet demands.
Amid Sudan’s economic crisis and the recent inflation of the Sudanese Pound (SDG), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) reported on 19 April, the national average retail price of food in Sudan has significantly increased, making “nutritious food unaffordable for many families”.
The chairman of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), El Hadi Idris, has renewed his party’s commitment in extraditing violators of human rights to the “International Criminal Court or the Special Court on the Crimes of the War in Darfur”, as per the criminal extradition clause in the Juba Peace Agreement.