♦ 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
♦ Renewed attacks on villages in Darfur's East Jebel Marra leave 11 dead
April 2 – 2018 SAWANI / FEINA At least 11 people were killed and 21 others were injured in attacks by paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on villages in South Darfur’s East Jebel Marra on Saturday. Multiple sources told Radio Dabanga that members of the RSF, Sudan’s main militia, attacked villages in the area of Sawani on Saturday morning. They were backed by more than 100 gunmen.
Two villages 10 kilometres north-east of Libei were attacked as well, causing the people to flee to nearby valleys and mountain tops. Sources of Radio Dabanga mentioned three children among the 11 people that were killed.
Video of the earlier devastation at Feina village in South Darfur's East Jebel Marra and militias showed completely burnt houses. The village is abandoned. A resident of the village standing at the ruins of his house, said the militias burned everything and left nothing, not even livestock. “Villagers are still in the mountains caves in a very bad humanitarian situation.”
During the first fighting in March, the Sudanese army and militia forces attacked the area of Jawa, south of Deribat, in an attempt to clear the region of the last rebel strongholds. Five days later, fighting erupted in the areas of Feina and Dawa. Thousands of people were displaced.
Last week President Omar Al Bashir extended a cease-fire for another three months, an announcement which Sudanese armed movements including the SLM-MM have called “misleading”.
♦Students clash in Sudan's El Gezira Aba, hundreds evicted from dorms
April 1 – 2018 EL GEZIRA ABA / ABU JUBEIHA A student was injured and three others were detained after fighting broke out between student groups at El Imam El Mahdi University in White Nile state last Wednesday. On Friday, security officers evicted about 300 students from the university’s boarding house.
Clashes between militant student members of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and other students erupted at the Faculty of Islamic Sharia and Law of El Imam El Mahdi University in El Gezira Aba. “Musa Zarroug was seriously wounded, and had to be transferred to Kosti Hospital,” a student told Radio Dabanga. “Moatasim Mousa and two others were detained.”
On Thursday, the students handed a petition to the El Gezira Aba Interior Department, demanding the students’ release. “Yet when we returned, we found security and police agents stationed in front of the dormitory. They said we were evicted and prevented us from entering the buildings to take our belongings.” Some students found refuge in another boarding house.
On Monday, March 26, at least 14 Darfuri students at the University of East Kordofan were injured and 17 others were arrested, after a protest meeting. A student explained that security forces and police broke-up the demonstrations using excessive violence.
More news from Radio Dabanga:
April 3 – 2018 DUBO EL OMDA A man was killed by gunmen near Dubo El Omda in eastern Jebel Marra on Monday morning. A displaced man in Central Darfur has been abducted…
April 3 – 2018 KHARTOUM President Omar Al Bashir has issued more statements threatening to take legal action against the Sudan Call opposition alliance because they are cooperating…
April 3 – 2018 TADAMON The national committee for environmental advocacy and victims of mining in South Kordofan reported a high number of miscarriages and births of deformed children in areas…
April 2 – 2018 TAWILA Two formerly displaced people were wounded in a shooting in Turbo village in North Darfur’s Tawila on Saturday. Speaking to Radio Dabanga, the Sheikh of Turbo reported that militiamen…
April 2 – 2018 ABU JUBEIHA / KADUGLI / KHARTOUM Owners of orchards and vegetable farms in South Kordofan complain about the loss of their crops and fruit trees because of the scarcity of fuel needed for their…
March 30 – 2018 KHARTOUM Acknowledgement by the Ministry of Education of reports that the chemistry paper in the Sudanese Secondary School exams was leaked, have been met with a wave of frustration and anxiety. Amid…
14 cases of meningitis in Central Darfur
March 30 – 2018 DARFUR Tests have confirmed 14 cases of meningitis in Central Darfur, with reports of other cases in South, North, and East Darfur. Medical sources told Radio Dabanga that 14 meningitis (cerebro-spinal fever)…
March 29 – 2018 LONDON British Members of Parliament and Peers, including the Chair and several Vice-Chairs of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Sudan and South Sudan, have called on British Foreign Secretary Boris…
March 29 – 2018 WASHINGTON A group of 57 members of the US Congress, have called on the US administration to recognize the realities in Sudan, suggesting that “a policy that is informed by the history and context of Sudan, insists…
March 28 – 2018 DERIBAT A woman was killed outright and a man lost his leg when an item of unexploded ordnance detonated in Darfur’s Jebel Marra on Tuesday. Witnesses told Radio Dabanga that Halima Suleiman Yahya (41)…
March 28 – 2018 KHARTOUM The Sudanese Journalists Network has issued a harsh statement condemning the Sudan regime’s, “use of the criminal code to silence the mouths of journalists”. The announcement came after a press court…
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