Members of the now-suspended Empowerment Removal Committee* (ERC) have denounced the statements by Minni Arko Minawi, who said on Sunday that he holds the committee responsible for the flooding of large areas in El Gezira due to the confiscation of tools and machinery used to dig and maintain irrigation canals.
Today marks this year’s World Humanitarian Day, an occasion which highlights the commemoration and celebration of humanitarian aid workers across the world. The acting Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan’s UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Eddie Rowe issued a statement yesterday, underlining the pivotal work by aid workers in Sudan.
The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan arrived in the South Darfur capital of Nyala yesterday, where he held talks with officials in Kalma camp for the displaced, in relation to the ICC trial of former janjaweed leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abdelrahman (known as ‘Ali Kushayb’), on 31 counts of war …
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Displaced people from North Darfur’s Zamzam camp established blockades along the road connecting El Fasher and Nyala for the second day in a row since Saturday, in protest of the repeated armed attacks which have killed a number of displaced people.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North under the leadership of Malik Agar (SPLM-N Agar) on Thursday announced a new split in its ranks. In a joint statement, Malik Agar and his deputy Yasir Arman announced that during a meeting organised by rebel leader El Hadi Idris in Khartoum Wednesday they “amicably” agreed to split. They made …
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