North Darfur market thieves’ trail leads to military base
Two shops at the market of Kutum town in North Darfur were ransacked on Tuesday, “The entire stock of clothes in the shop of Abdel Karim Abdel Rahman Abdel Karim, and all the foodstuffs of Tijani Abdel Rasul’s grocery, including 40 jerry cans of cooking oil, were stolen on Tuesday evening,” a vendor of the Kutum market told Radio Dabanga. A team formed by market vendors pursued the thieves. The traces led them to the military base in Kutum. The vendor said that the market traders blame the Sudanese army for not protecting them against the repeated incidents of pillaging of the market, “despite the fact that we pay monthly protection fees to the army”. “Most of the tracks of robbers stop in front of the army base in Kutum.” File photo: Government forces in a village in Darfur (Brian Steidle/US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Two shops at the market of Kutum town in North Darfur were ransacked on Tuesday,
“The entire stock of clothes in the shop of Abdel Karim Abdel Rahman Abdel Karim, and all the foodstuffs of Tijani Abdel Rasul’s grocery, including 40 jerry cans of cooking oil, were stolen on Tuesday evening,” a vendor of the Kutum market told Radio Dabanga.
A team formed by market vendors pursued the thieves. The traces led them to the military base in Kutum.
The vendor said that the market traders blame the Sudanese army for not protecting them against the repeated incidents of pillaging of the market, “despite the fact that we pay monthly protection fees to the army”.
“Most of the tracks of robbers stop in front of the army base in Kutum.”
File photo: Government forces in a village in Darfur (Brian Steidle/US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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