SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Darfur sit-in against UNAMID withdrawal continues

14/12/2020: Radio Dabanga - Darfur sit-in against UNAMID withdrawal continues 

 Radio Dabanga report that a sit-in in Kalma camp near Nyala, South Darfur, entered its second week. The protestors demand that the joint United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is not withdrawn at the end of 2020. “Protection of the displaced cannot be entrusted to those who killed them”, one of the sit-in leaders said.

One of the leaders of the sit-in called the UNAMID exit “a conspiracy against the displaced people, a humanitarian crime and a historic failure of the United Nations (UN)”.

He demanded that the mission remains until peace and security are secured, criminals are tried, settlers on the lands of the displaced are expelled, and militias are disarmed. He also demanded the restoration of lands traditionally used by a particular clan or tribal group, alongside individual and collective compensation for the displaced.

Displaced people in Kabkabiya camp in North Darfur organised similar protests.