The December 19 Marches of the Millions, in Khartoum on Sunday marked a dark day for journalists in Sudan, with several reports of violence, detentions, and injuries to media professionals. According to the Sudanese Journalists Network, December 19 witnessed the highest rate of violence in one day for journalists and media professionals, since the military …
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The international community has made its voice heard against reports of rape, sexual violence and harassment by security forces during the December 19 Marches of the Millions, in Khartoum on Sunday, “to condemn the use of sexual and gender based violence to drive women away from demonstrations and silence their voices”.
Reports of rape, sexual violence and harassment by security forces during the December 19 Marches of the Millions, in Khartoum on Sunday, have prompted a chorus of condemnation. In a statement on Wednesday, Mansam, an alliance of political and civil feminist groups, condemned the violations and sexual violence that a number of women revolutionaries were …
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The news that Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok was considering submitting his resignation on Tuesday evening provoked widespread reactions in Sudanese public opinion, because it did not come definitively, and came amid a severe crisis in the country, just 48 hours after the December 19 Marches of the Millions, which witnessed excessive violence, two deaths, rapes, …
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