♦ 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
♦ Ten girls gang-raped in Darfur
June 28 – 2016 SHANGIL TOBAYA / TAWILA / EAST JEBEL MARRA Ten girls were gang-raped in separate incidents in East Jebel Marra and North Darfur's Shangil Tobaya in the past week. Displaced people have staged a protest to urge Unamid to protect women who leave the camp to collect firewood.
Omda Mukhtar Bosh, coordinator of the Tawila camps for the displaced, told Radio Dabanga that militiamen ambushed a group of farmers from a camp for displaced people, about 10 kilometres east of Tawila, on Monday. The attackers beat them and seized two young women (18 and 16), taking turns to rape them. Relatives of the victims, supported by the police, transferred the victims to a clinic of doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Bosh reported.
In a separate incident, armed robbers gang-raped a 16-year-old girl in Um Arda village, near Tabit in North Darfur. Three militiamen raped three young women (15, 16, and 17) from Zamzam camp near a village close to Khazan Tunjur, East Jebel Marra, on Monday morning.
Protest
A group of teenagers from camp Shaddad in North Darfur’s Shangil Tobaya was ambushed by militiamen while collecting firewood and straw 10 kilometres from the camp last Wednesday. Four girls, aged between 13 and 16 years, were raped repeatedly. Two girls who went missing following the gang-rape were found the next day. A delegation of the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (Unamid) visited Shaddad on Sunday morning and was welcomed by a sit-in by displaced people, demanding security and patrols to protect women and girls who leave the camp to forage. About 18,000 displaced people participated in the sit-in, a camp coordinator told Radio Dabanga.
♦ Darfuri student killed in West Darfur: opposition party
June 28 – 2016 ZALINGEI / KHARTOUM A student of El Geneina University was shot dead in Zalingei, capital of Central Darfur on Monday. El Sanusi Hashim, student at the University of El Geneina and member of the Independent Students’ Conference, was fatally hit by an army bullet on Monday evening.
After returning from Jebel Marra to Zalingei, Hashim attended a ceremony in the town after the Ramadan breakfast, when soldiers shot at him. He was killed instantly, the Sudanese Congress Party (SCP) reported in a statement later on Monday. The SCP calls for “a fair and transparent investigation into the incident and prosecution of the culprits [..] so that his young life will not be wasted”.
Last April, protesting Sudanese students and activists were detained by the security forces, following unrest at universities and protests that erupted over the assassination of two students in Omdurman and North Kordofan. Student Mohamed Sadiq was shot dead when the student supporters of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), backed by the Sudanese National Intelligence and Service (NISS) opened fire as he was addressing the Association of Nuba Mountains Students on Wednesday 27 April. Abu Bakr Hashim (19) was killed at the University of Kordofan in El Obeid on 19 April, during a fight that erupted over the student council election.
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15 women detained for 'indecent dress' in Sudanese capital
June 28 – 2016 KHARTOUM Sudan’s Public Order Police detained 15 young women on charges of indecent dress during patrols in the centre of Khartoum on Monday. The Public Order Police began its swoops after the Commissioner of…
Al Bashir meets with outgoing UN special envoy for Sudan
June 27 – 2016 KHARTOUM Sudan’s President Omar Al Bashir on Monday received the outgoing special envoy of the UN Secretary General for Sudan and South Sudan, Haile Menkerios, at Khartoum’s Republican Palace on the occasion of the expiry…
Sudanese sports newspaper gagged
June 27 – 2016 KHARTOUM On Sunday, the Sudanese security agents confiscated the print run of EL Asyad daily sports newspaper and suspended publication for an indefinite period. The Sudanese Press Human Rights Organisation (JAHR) reports in a statement…
June 25 – 2016 WASHINGTON DC The US State Department has added its voice to world leaders who have welcomed the unilateral ceasefire for the Two Areas announced by Sudan’s President Omar Al Bashir on June 17. In a statement from Washington, US State…
23 now dead, 12 wounded in West Darfur clashes
June 24 – 2016 UM TAJOK The death toll and casualty list in clashes between herders and farmers in Um Tajok, Kereinik locality in West Darfur, has risen to 23 dead and 12 wounded. Three villages have also been burned in the violence. A contingent of…
Seven more Khartoum students released
June 23 – 2016 KHARTOUM The Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) on Tuesday released seven Khartoum University students who were detained during widespread protests in April. The student protests were mainly aimed against a …
At least five dead in Central Darfur ‘retaliatory attack’
June 22 – 2016 TUR At least five people were killed and eight injured on Monday afternoon in an attack by militant Abbala tribesmen on Tur in Nierteti locality, Central Darfur. There was also widespread theft in the city’s market and houses. Fires were set in the easter…
Sortony: Darfur prosecutors wind-up preliminary enquiries
June 22 – 2016 SORTONY The Darfur crimes prosecution office has finished the preliminary inquiries into the incidents of May 9 in camp Sortony, North Darfur where militants killed eight people and wounded others. On Tuesday the deputy prosecutor of the special court for Darfur…
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