The Khartoum North (Bahri) and Khartoum resistance committees organised a demonstration on Saturday, to commemorate the January 17 massacre in Bahri, where seven people were killed and more than a 100 protesters were injured. Demonstrators gathered in Bahri, carrying pictures of the slain protesters, and demanded retribution and the handover of power to the people.
Sudan’s Vice President of the Sovereignty Council and Commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Lt Gen Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemeti’, stated in a briefing yesterday that he is committed to his previous pledge in removing the military institution from the political scene.
People in Port Sudan ring the alarm bells over the increased crystal meth use among youth. Security forces are doing little to combat the spread and professional treatment is expensive, so activists have been forced to set up their own grassroots initiatives.
Sudan’s strikes over unpaid salaries and the failure of authorities to implement the promised 2022 salary structure continue. Junior doctors extended their strike for another three days whilst striking civil servants in North Darfur entered their second month of industrial action.
In an interview with Radio Dabanga, economic expert Sidgi Kaballo described Sudan’s inflation figures as “disturbing” and warned of a ‘revolution of the hungry’ if the root causes of the economic problems are not addressed. He warned of the deployment of more police and security forces to contain the situation and said that, instead, a …
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