Three men were killed and 20 people were injured in Darfur last weekend. In eastern Chad, 21 women refugees from Darfur were attacked with knives. In an armed robbery near Seleia in West Darfur on Saturday evening, two people were killed and three others were injured.
Anger and sadness prevailed throughout Sudan after seven demonstrators were killed and more than 100 were wounded during the March of Millions on Monday. The country witnessed an overall quiet yesterday, as most of the Sudanese joined the two-day campaign of civil disobedience called for by the resistance committees. A number of cities witnessed street …
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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.
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.”
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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