The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (STSG) for Sudan, and head of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), Volker Perthes, has issued a statement deploring the “heinous killings of civilians in West Darfur”, calling for “an end of violence, and “transparent investigation”.
Activist Ayman Hariri was arrested for the second time from his workplace at the Ministry of Finance in El Gedaref on Sunday, by agents of Military Intelligence. Three youths were held at a market café in Dilling, South Kordofan, without any explanation.
Sheikh Adam Ali Othman (70) was killed on Friday evening, in an armed robbery in the village of Shetak in Um Tjouk Administrative Unit in West Darfur, while five more people were injured in an attack on a mosque. Two people were injured in violent incidents in North Darfur.
At least 9,000 100-kg (quintal) bales of cotton were lost during an extensive fire that broke out in a cotton gin in El Marangan industrial area in El Gezira on Friday, that took 12 hours to extinguish.
The ruling Sudan junta has released 25 leaders of the Resistance Committees who were detained during the protests against the military coup, however leading members of the opposition Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), the leaders of the suspended Empowerment Removal Committee (ERC), remain in detention.