SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Cautious calm in Port Sudan following clashes

14/8/2020: Radio Dabanga - Cautious calm in Port Sudan following clashes

 Radio Dabanga report that Port Sudan witnessed calm after over 100 Rapid Support Forces (RSF) arrived in the city, joining joint military forces and members of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police.

 Meanwhile, in Khartoum in-front of the Council of Ministers, members of Port Sudan Resistance Committees denounced the Red Sea state's negligence in dealing with the violence and the government’s disregard, calling for: an end to the bloodshed, an investigation, accountability

 They handed a memorandum to the Cabinet calling for urgent state intervention, ensuring that security is one of the prerogatives of the state. The results of previous investigations into previous Port Sudan tribal fighting have also been requested for public review. The protestors rejected temporary solutions, calling for activation of a law on cybercrime and preserving civilian lives.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AP – Sudan’s rebels want a role in transitional government

14/8/19: AP – Sudan’s rebels want a role in transitional government, by Samy Magdy

 AP report that the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) said it should be represented in the transitional government formed by the military and the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) pro-democracy movement.

 Speaking to AP in Cairo, where the SRF is negotiating with the FFC on changes to the constitutional declaration, Senior SRF official Yassir Arman said the transitional government should end the war in Darfur, and that the SRF should be integrated into a “professional” army that represents all Sudanese communities as part of an “agenda of peace.”

 Arman said: “you cannot build democracy or development, sustainable development, or go to a civil state unless you resolve issues of war and issues of the security arrangement.”

 Arman also called for Omar Al Bashir to be extradited to the Hague to be tried for war crimes by the ICC.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AFP – US bans former Sudan security chief Ghosh over ‘torture’

14/8/19: AFP – US bans former Sudan security chief Ghosh over ‘torture’

 AFP reports that the US has accused Salah Ghosh, the former head of Sudan's feared security service, of torture and barred him, his wife and daughter from entering the US.

 In a statement, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the US State Department made the decision amid “credible information that Salah Ghosh was involved in torture during his tenure as head of [Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service].”

 Pompeo added that the US joins the Sudanese people in their call for a transitional government that is truly civilian-led and differs fundamentally from the Bashir regime, particularly on the protection of human rights.”