A farmer and a guard were killed in two separate incidents in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, last week. Two policemen and four civilians were wounded in firefights and armed robberies. Many Nuba fear that South Kordofan will become ‘a second Darfur’.
Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, Commander-in-chief of the Sudan Armed Forces and head of the Sovereignty Council, decided on Tuesday to form a fact-finding committee that will investigate the violence used against protesters during the March of Millions on January 17. Rebel movements have condemned the violence. People reported attacks on mourners. A number of detained …
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The Wali (Governor) of Darfur, Minni Minawi, has confirmed the start of operations to recover the goods looted from the former United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) headquarters in El Fasher. The base in the North Darfur capital was initially plundered on December 24-25, and was subsequently cleared of much of what was left, …
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The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has expressed “serious concern about the human rights situation in Sudan, with peaceful protesters killed or injured on a near-daily basis by security forces, as well as a clampdown on critics of the authorities and on independent journalists.”
Concluding a visit to the North Darfur capital of El Fasher on Sunday and Monday, UN officials from UNICEF, the World Food Programme (WFP), refugee agency (UNHCR), and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), have denounced the attacks on UN operations that occurred over the last few weeks.