Detained activist Seifelislam Essameldin Mohamed suffers from frequent convulsions and poor hearing and sight as a result of being severely tortured in detention. The authorities reportedly hampered his treatment in a hospital in Khartoum on Tuesday. Fellow activists launched a campaign on social media for his release.
Abdallah Obshar, the spokesperson for the High Council of Beja Nazirs* and Independent Chieftains in eastern Sudan, has warned of the dire consequences of any political settlement in which the eastern Sudanese are not involved.
The televised speech by the leader of Sudan’s ruling military junta, Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan on Monday, in which he announced the military’s withdrawal from the current governing bodies, and gave the civilian opposition groups in the country the opportunity to form a government of technocrats, continues to prompt mainly sceptical reactions in Sudan, while …
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The United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), African Union (AU), and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Trilateral Mechanism has announced the suspension of the dialogue that began on June 8 this year, after the withdrawal of the Sudanese military from the negotiations.
A police station and an ambulance were torched by angry residents in Rashad locality in South Kordofan on Tuesday evening, after two young men were shot dead by armed robbers, and a third severely injured. Another person died and several were wounded in a separate incident of highway robbery east of Kadugli.