Main water resources ‘sold to Chinese companies’
Residents protest as essential resource becomes even less accessibleHundreds of residents from the region of Abu Zubd in South Kordofan went out on protests near the county building to protest against the government’s decision to confiscate the region’s main water resources to sell it to the Chinese companies operating in the area for 35 Sudanese Pounds (about 13 US$) per water truck. The objectors explained that local residents now have to walk for long distances in order to fetch water now that the authorities have confiscated the water sources that were feeding the county.
Residents protest as essential resource becomes even less accessible
Hundreds of residents from the region of Abu Zubd in South Kordofan went out on protests near the county building to protest against the government’s decision to confiscate the region’s main water resources to sell it to the Chinese companies operating in the area for 35 Sudanese Pounds (about 13 US$) per water truck. The objectors explained that local residents now have to walk for long distances in order to fetch water now that the authorities have confiscated the water sources that were feeding the county.The protestors chanted slogans insulting the county commissioner, and also expressed their disagreement with the decision to transfer an Iranian grant of 340,000 pounds originally intended for the Abu Zubd hospital to the state of Shamaliya without any right to do so.
Witnesses told Radio Dabanga that the police had repressed the protestors by force, and that three of them had been arrested then released.
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