The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Livestock in North Darfur has warned that widespread locust swarms are expected with the onset of the upcoming rainy season, which may cause such damage to crops as to endanger the entire summer agricultural season in the state.
An activist in the field of environmental protection in Sudan’s River Nile state, Abdelazim El Badawi, has warned of the environmental damage, and serious public health problems, that have befallen the areas between the cities of Atbara and Berber as a result of the traditional mining operations in which mills are used.
The South Darfur State Security Committee has announced the formation of an emergency room, after three civilians were killed and other injured when gunmen opened fire in Kalma camp for the displaced, near the South Darfur capital of Nyala.
El Shazly Hassan Yagoub (33 years old) was shot dead while driving his rickshaw on the road between El Sareif Beni Hussein and Jebel Amer in El Sareif Beni Hussein locality, North Darfur, on Wednesday morning.
Four children between the ages of 9 and 14 were seriously injured when an unexploded ordnance detonated in Kereinik, West Darfur. The exploded device was a remnant of the attacks on Kereinik last month, which are described as a genocide by the Higher Committee to Stop the Massacres in West Darfur