Eleven Darfuri were injured in Farchana refugee camp in eastern Chad in two attacks during the past week. In neighbouring North Darfur, more than 500 families in the Tina camp for displaced people near Karnoi are in a “dire state” since international aid organisations left one year ago.
A sit-in in Abu Hamad, River Nile state, to demand the expulsion of mining companies from the area of El Fida, continued yesterday for the sixth day. Activist and member of the sit-in committee, Osman Ali Jibril, told the Voice of the States programme on Radio Dabanga on Sunday that the sit-in will continue until …
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Thousands of people demonstrated in Khartoum and various other places in Sudan on Sunday, in response to the calls of the resistance committees for new Marches of Millions to demand an end to military rule, and in response to police statements indicating that protesters are organised and violent.
Groundnut and sesame crop harvests in South Kordofan are under “major threat,” said a minister of the state government in an interview with Radio Dabanga. In Central Darfur, livestock is being released early on agricultural land without farmers’ consent.
Sudan’s police force raided an exhibition at an art gallery in the El Zuhoor neigbourhood in Khartoum on October 20, resulting in the arrests of nine guests, several art pieces being confiscated, and one destroyed in the process, according to the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS).