SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Eastern Sudan FFC call for Kassala governor to assume role

24/8/2020: Radio Dabanga -  Eastern Sudan FFC call for Kassala governor to assume role

 Radio Dabanga report that the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) in eastern Sudan have called on Khartoum to allow the newly appointed governor of Kassala, Saleh Ammar, to travel to the state to assume his role within the next two days in order avoid a “political and security vacuum”.

 Abdelazim Abdelkarim, a leading member of the council, said that the procedures for selecting Ammar were carried out in an “institutional and legal manner”.

 His colleague, Hamour Hussein, warned that eastern Sudan may become “another Darfur” in the event that the current conditions are not resolved. Hussein added that allowing Native Administration leaders to select state governors “will disrupt the social fabric.”

 Hussein also expressed his dissatisfaction with tribal polarisation and racist rhetoric in the state, attributing the emergence of “tribal discourse” to “the divide-and-rule policies of the former regime,” appealing to the Kassala residents to distance themselves from tribalism.