♦ 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
North Darfur schoolgirl (13) survives brutal rape
April 27 – 2017 KABKABIYA A 13-year-old schoolgirl has been admitted to the Unamid hospital in Kabkabiya with serious injuries after being raped and stabbed in a vicious attack, allegedly by a militiaman, at 3 pm on Tuesday.
A relative of the victim told Radio Dabanga that she and her 10-year-old sister, who live in Kabkabiya camp for the displaced, were collecting firewood at Bir Jongu, north of Kabkabiya. “The sisters were attacked by a militiaman, who first raped Fadna, and then stabbed her twice with a knife in her genitals, causing internal injuries."
The doctor's report from Unamid’s Mongolian Level II Hospital in Kabkabiya, obtained by Radio Dabanga, confirms the rape and knife injuries to her vagina and bladder, which led to internal bleeding. While the rape has been reported, no suspect has been named, and no arrests have been made.
According to a new report by the Sudanese Ministry of the Interior last week, Sudan witnessed 348 rape cases during one year, and 43 of these cases were reported in Darfur. While the Darfur Criminal Prosecutor, El Fatih Taifour, recently reported nearly 40 complaints of rape in 2017 alone.
South Darfur gunfight leaves 11 dead, 17 injured
April 30 – 2017 BURAM At least 11 people were killed and 17 others wounded in a gunfight between cattle thieves and a search party not far from the town of Buram in South Darfur on Saturday. The police chief has strongly denied that the incident was of tribal nature.
Listener Masoud Saleh told Radio Dabanga from Buram that calm has returned to the area of En Nadeef where the clash between Salamat and Habbaniya tribesmen took place. He explained that the fighting was triggered by the theft of about 150 cows from Habbaniya herders by Salamat tribesmen. The South Darfur police chief, Maj. Gen. Balla El Hussein, told reporters in the state capital of Nyala on Saturday that the search party found tracks of the stolen cows in the neighbourhood of a village near Buram. During a meeting with tribal leaders in the area, the members of the search party were shot.
The police chief denied the tribal nature of the incident and reported that the authorities immediately sent buffer troops who separated the two parties and contained the situation.
At the beginning of April, the bodies of seven members of a nomadic Arab tribe, who had been kidnapped by cattle thieves in March, were found shot dead and handcuffed in Khazan Tunjur in Tawila locality. Cattle thieves, believed to belong to Abdel Wahid El Nur's rebel forces, had kidnapped the noamds after stealing 150 of their animals near a water well last March.
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Sudan V-P calls for voluntary return survey in Darfur
May 2 – 2017 EL FASHER Sudan’s Second Vice-President Hasabo Mohamed Abdelrahman has called for a survey among displaced people in Darfur on the rehabilitation of camps and facilitation of voluntary repatriations. Abdelrahman…
Straw collectors shot, stabbed in Darfur village
May 1 – 2017 FALLUJA Two women were injured in an attack by herders near Falluja village in eastern Jebel Marra on Sunday. “Three herders riding camels shot Sara Abakar Yousef and Um Kaltoum Saleh Yahya when they were…
Eastern Sudan: Drop in number of cholera, fever cases
May 1 – 2017 EL GEDAREF / TOKAR The spread of cholera in eastern Sudan’s El Gedaref seems to have halted. Also no new cases, suspected to be haemorrhagic fever, were recorded in Tokar. On Sunday, a medical source told…
Sudan capital to take measures against ‘illegal foreigners’
May 1 – 2017 KHARTOUM The Governor of Khartoum, Lt. Gen. Abdelrahim Hussein, has instructed security authorities to take preventive measures against violations “that may be committed by aliens in the state”. After a…
Deadly ambush, ‘foreigners bussed-in’ in North Darfur’s Gallab
April 30 – 2017 GALLAB A displaced woman was killed, her sister was injured, and five others went missing in an ambush in Gallab near El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, on Friday. A number of African families reportedly arrived in the area on…
Sudan Football Association in turmoil
April 30 – 2017 KHARTOUM A large quarrel developed in front of the offices of the Sudan Football Association (SFA) in Khartoum this morning. The police had to intervene to contain an escalating conflict between supporters of Dr Mutasim Jaafar, Chairman…
UXO blast kills young North Darfur camel herder
April 28 – 2017 TABIT The detonation of an item of unexploded ordnance has killed a 14-year-old herder as he grazed his camels in North Darfur on Thursday. A relative of the dead child told Radio Dabanga that El Fadel Ibrahim Saleh was grazing his…
Enough Project makes case for 'modernised' US sanctions against Sudan
April 28 – 2017 WASHINGTON The Enough Project, a US-based watchdog which aims to end genocide and crimes against humanity in Africa, has urged the US House Foreign Affairs Committee to utilise "modernised pressures" against what it terms “a regime…
Two dead, seven injured, Imam beaten in Darfur militia attacks
April 27 – 2017 DARFUR Two people died, seven – including two children – were injured, and three others are still missing after a night attack by armed militants on Mura and Barkoro areas west of Katur in eastern Jebel Marra. The Imam of a village mosque…
Sudan to announce National Accord Government next week
April 27 – 2017 KHARTOUM The Assistant of the President of Sudan, and Deputy Chairman of the National Congress Party, Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid, announced that the consultations pertinent to formation of the national accord government have been completed…
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