♦ 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
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♦ UK all-party parliamentary delegation starts visit to Sudan, Darfur
September 17 – 2018 KHARTOUM / OMDURMAN A delegation of UK parliamentarians representing the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Sudan & South Sudan, who arrived in Khartoum on Sunday for a five-day visit to Sudan and Darfur, have met with the heads of Sudan’s parliamentary subcommittees in Omdurman on Monday. That day, Sudan’s Foreign Minister El Dirdeiry Mohamed Ahmed and the delegation discussed ways to promote bilateral cooperation between the two countries, particularly on human rights issues.
The UK parliamentary delegation is led by David Drew, Labour MP for Stroud. The parliamentarians will spend three days in Khartoum and one day in Darfur.
Last month a delegation from the United Kingdom led by the British Minister of State for Africa, Harriett Baldwin, visited North Darfur and held talks with the state government in El Fasher. But in July this year, 400 people took to the streets in London to protest increasingly friendly ties between the governments of the UK and Sudan.
♦ Sisters raped on farm near North Darfur camp
September 14 – 2018 ZAMZAM Three men have raped two displaced girls (15 and 17 years) on a farm in El Fasher locality on Wednesday, and raped them for more than three hours. The aunt of the victims told Radio Dabanga that three herders attacked the two sisters while they were tilling a farm at Tayarat. The area is close to Zamzam camp for displaced people.
The gunmen raped them at gunpoint for more than three hours. The aunt explained that the victims were taken to the Tabit health centre, which let them be transferred to El Fasher because of their critical health condition.
Another family member of the girls said that a team of relatives and camp residents decided to chase the perpetrators, who have managed to flee to a settlement in the south.
Farmers speaking to Radio Dabanga have often expressed their desire for more protection and security in order to make the farming season succeed. Earlier this month armed herders opened fire and seriously wounded five people near Tabit in North Darfur, as they returned from farming.
More news from Radio Dabanga:
September 18 – 2018 N'DJAMENA The tripartite committee of the Sudanese and Chadian governments with the United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) has decided to resume the…
Homes, fields laid waste in Sudan’s Sennar as El Dindr river bursts banks
September 17 – 2018 SENNAR The government of Sennar state has announced the collapse of 2,000 houses, the destruction of more than 6,000 acres of agricultural crops, the flooding of…
September 16 – 2018 ZAMZAM People in the camps for the displaced in North Darfur complain of the spread of malaria. “There is no home free of malaria in Zamzam camp,” a community…
Land protection forces demolish shelters in Sudan capital
September 16 – 2018 KHARTOUM A force from the Khartoum state Land Protection Unit demolished several newly erected shelters in Khartoum North on Thursday.The residents of El…
Paramilitaries sentenced to death for South Kordofan killings
September 14 – 2018 KHARTOUM Eleven members of the paramilitary Popular Defence Forces have been sentenced to death for killing civilians in El Sanadra and El Shawaya in South…
Kassala governor: 'Seven die of chikungunya'
September 14 – 2018 KASSALA Governor Adam Jamaa of Kassala state has acknowledged the death of seven people from chikungunya fever. More than 6,000 people have been infected…
US Dollar rises against Sudanese Pound again
September 14 – 2018 KHARTOUM The Dollar price in Sudan rose again to 43 Pounds in the parallel market on Thursday. Currency traders attributed the rise to the increase of the demand…
Woman dies, thousands of homes destroyed in Sudan rains
September 12 – 2018 KABKABIYA / ED EL FURSAN / EL GEDAREF Heavy rainfall in various parts of Sudan on Sunday and Monday caused the death of a woman in the Kabkabiya camp…
Sudan: Economists denounce Al Bashir’s ‘new emergency plans’
September 12 – 2018 KHARTOUM Sudanese financial experts downplay the impact of the reduction of government expenses as announced by President Omar Al Bashir on Monday…
Man 'tortured to death' in South Kordofan
September 12 – 2018 ABBASIYA Members of the Military Intelligence (MI) have reportedly beaten-up and tortured six men in Abbasiya in South Kordofan. One of the victims succumbed…
Landslide kills 20 in South Darfur
September 12 – 2018 KASS Twenty people died, at least 50 others were injured, and six went missing in Togoli village in South Darfur’s Kass locality in a landslide following heavy…
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