East Darfur residents face administrative difficulties

Students and residents in Adila and Abu Karinka localities in East Darfur have complained about the difficulties in obtaining their national number, because of the localities’ boycott of agreements with the state government. A MP pointed to the worsening situation inside prisons in Darfur. Listeners explained to Radio Dabanga that they travelled to North Darfur and West Kordofan in order to obtain the national number, which is linked to all administrative arrangements, service transactions, and the certification of the sitting for Sudanese examinations. They appealed to the centralised authorities to send a team to Adila and Abu Karinka, to speed up the issuance of the national number. Members of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in the two localities already planned to boycott the party’s general conference on 23 October “because we are opposed to the way East Darfur state is managed, and the Sudanese government’s disregard of our cause”, one of them told Radio Dabanga. Security in prisons ‘worsens’Members of Parliament have described the security situation and the filing of criminal reports in Darfur as “getting worse and worse”. A MP explained that Darfuri are forced to fetch the papers to file reports to the police themselves, and sometimes have to sell their mobile phones to complete the procedure because the police does not help them. MP Imadeldin Bushra described the prisons’ conditions as “dire”, and that the inmates are violated in their rights by the guards. “There is a lack of jails in the police departments in some states of Darfur, where the inmates are tied with chains,” he told Radio Dabanga. He revealed the escape of some prisoners, of whom some are accused of murder. Map: East Darfur state. Related: Visit to Sudan’s detainees stopped by Presidency (13 November 2014) East Darfur students, teachers affected by insecurity (6 November 2014) East Darfur NCP members to boycott general conference (19 October 2014)