♦ This week’s news in brief ♦
A compact weekly digest of Dabanga Sudan’s highlights of the news from Darfur and Sudan
A compact weekly digest of Dabanga Sudan's highlights of the news from Darfur and Sudan
♦ Suspected cholera claims more lives in Central Darfur
March 9 – 2018 NIERTETI The spectre of ‘acute watery diarrhoea’ – suspected to be cholera – continues to hang over the villages of Nierteti and the western parts of Jebel Marra in Central Darfur. Two more people have died.
Fresh reports to reach Radio Dabanga on Thursday say that two people died and 12 others were infected.
A voluntary work activist told Radio Dabanga that two people died and four others were infected in the medical isolation centre of Kuweila on Thursday.
He explained that the total number of cases held at the centre was 20.
♦Suspected cholera in Central Darfur: Dozens of new cases
March 6 – 2018 BERBER A clash between police and people from Berber locality in River Nile state resulted in the death of one man, as protesters stormed a foreign mining company.
On Monday authorities in River Nile reported about the circumstances under which the deadly clash took place in Singeir, in the northern part of Berber. A man was shot by the police and succumbed to his wounds in the hospital. Five other people sustained injuries.
The press statement said that the clash was sparked by a dispute over the site in Singeir that recently has been granted to a Russian concessionaire, which received a mining license by the Sudanese authorities.
The statement said that the two parties of the gold miners and residents of the area had reached a compromise but that it has been violated by a group of approximately 150 people who stormed the Russian company’s mining site with the purpose to stop its operation..
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Darfur: Govt. forces, rebels clash in Jebel Marra A relative of one of the victims told Radio Dabanga that Ishag Idris, Daoud Haroun, and Hussein Hamid were injured when they were caught in an exchange of fire between members of the Sudan Liberation Movement, led by Abdelwahid El Nur (SLM-AW), and government troops on Friday evening In a statement on Sunday, the Darfur lawyers announced they will file a complaint to the Sudanese Political Parties Council against Salah Abdallah (aka Salah Gosh), head of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS). According to the DBA, the NISS is holding political activists as “hostages”. Sudan bans ailing NUP/DBA leader from travelling to Cairo El Doma, who spent more than a month in detention, told Radio Dabanga that on Thursday as he was on his way to Cairo for treatment after completing all the travel procedures. “One of the security personnel informed me I was banned from travelling on orders from senior authorities and confiscated my passport.” More voices of outrage at Radio Dabanga satellite blackout On February 18, the Egyptian satellite service company Nilesat shut-down the uplink of the 24/7 Dabanga Sudan satellite programme to its channel on Eutelsat – a satellite service at the same position. The suspension took place without prior notice to Radio Dabanga or its service management system, so the channel went dark until a new frequency at Eutelsat allowed transmission to resume the next day at 1pm. |
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Report: UN Secretary-General António Guterres laments ‘no tangible progress’ in Darfur March 9 – 2018 NEW YORK In his latest regular report to the UN Security Council (UNSC) on the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (Unamid), UN Secretary-General António Guterres has acknowledged positive security developments, but expressed regrets that “no tangible progress has been made in finding a comprehensive political solution to the conflict in Darfur”. Gutterres’s latest report, which covers the period from December 16 2017 to February 15 2018 will be discussed by the UNSC on March 14. In accordance with Security Council resolution 2363 (2017), by which the Council extended the mandate of Unamid until 30 June 2018, the Secretary-General is required to report, every 60 days, on its implementation. Lack of funding causes Radio Afia Darfur to stop its broadcasts March 12 – 2018 DABANGA SUDAN The independent Radio Afia Darfur stopped its broadcasts on Saturday, after 10 years of daily media work in Sudan, because of funding problems. Various Sudanese groups have expressed their support to Radio Dabanga Sudan. The independent radio institution, which shed light on the plight of displaced people in Sudan’s conflict-torn western region and Darfuri refugees in Chad and other countries, said that lack of funding forced the station to stop its work. Fuel pumps in Sudan’s Sennar, North Kordofan running on empty March 9 – 2018 SENNAR / EL OBEID Over the past two days, the cities of Sennar state have experienced a severe fuel crisis, causing difficulty to traffic and curtailing people’s movement. They repot overcrowding of people at traffic stations and waiting for long hours to go to their homes in the city, villages and remote localities. |
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