White Nile parties demand release of Sudan politicians

Members of the Islamic Ansar movement and the National Umma Party (NUP) in White Nile demanded the release of the party’s vice president, Dr Maryam El Sadig El Mahdi, and the head of the Sudanese Congress Party (SCP), Ibrahim El Sheikh, in a memorandum which they handed to the presidency of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) in Kosti on Thursday. Essam Mohamed Abdelrahman, one of the leaders of the Umma Party in Kosti, told Radio Dabanga that a group of leaders of the Ansar movement and the Umma Party handed the memorandum during a demonstration in Kosti. He stressed that the Ansar and the Umma Party in White Nile are supporters of the Paris Declaration as a solution to the country’s crisis. File photo: Demonstration at the Abba mosques in El Gezira in White Nile state in May this year, for the release of the then detained NUP leader El Sadig El Mahdi.Related: Dr El Mahdi’s detention ‘without legal basis’: lawyer (2 September 2014) Ailing El Sheikh returned to West Kordofan (14 August 2014) Peaceful El Mahdi protests after Friday prayers in Sudan (30 May 2014)