For two decades, Darfur has been groaning and bleeding. It was inhabited by death and destruction, and in its bloody conflicts, foul fire spread to burn the tribe’s youth alive, in the worst manifestations of ethnic and racial obsession, and in light of the enforced disappearance of the rule of law, and the complete absence …
Abdel Mahmoud Abu, Secretary-General of the Ansar Affairs Authority*, welcomed the tripartite initiative of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), African Union, and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to facilitate negotiations between different parties in Sudan to resolve current disputes.
The Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), led by El Hadi Idris, called on all revolutionary forces to ‘appeal to the voice of reason and give priority to the interests of the country and its people’ and to make concessions in order to reach a comprehensive political settlement that does not exclude anyone.
A solidarity sit-in by relatives of detainees outside Soba Prison in Khartoum, was broken-up by government forces on Saturday evening, lawyers from Sudan report. The sit-in was one of six that were organised by Emergency Lawyers at prisons in Khartoum and elsewhere in Sudan.
The Wali (governor) of West Darfur state, Gen Khamis Abdallah Abakar, has called on all sectors of society to renounce violence and tribalism and to be alert “in order to abort the conspiracies woven by the enemies of peace”.