SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Darfur displaced resume protests against exit of UNAMID

26/12/2020: Multiple sources – Darfur displaced resume protests against exit of UNAMID

• Sudan Tribune

• Radio Dabanga

 Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Darfur have called for more sit-ins to prevent the 31 December withdrawal of UN-African peacekeeping mission in Darfur.

The General Coordination of the Displaced and Refugee Camps issued a statement that UNAMID’s withdrawal cannot pre-empt comprehensive peace, security, disarmed militias, expelled settlers from IDP lands and hand-over of war criminals to the International Criminal Court.

Sheikh Ishag Abdallah, head of Kalma camp, told Radio Dabanga that the decision to stop UNAMID’s work by the end of the year “is unacceptable in light of the current security situation”. He warned for further deterioration of the situation after the withdrawal of the UNAMID peacekeepers, and called for “alternative international protection if the mission will have to withdraw”.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Resistance Committees protest killing of activist in Sudan capital

26/12/2020: Radio Dabanga - Resistance Committees protest killing of activist in Sudan capital

 Radio Dabanga report that the Resistance Committees in El Kalakla protested “the government’s silence” following the killing of young activist Bahaeldin Nouri by unidentified armed men.

 The family of Nouri said in a statement on Wednesday that a pick-up truck without number plates stopped at the El Kalakla Sangaat market. Two men got out of the car, seized Nouri, and took him to an unknown destination.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Hamdok says revolution is civilian-military alliance

26/12/2019: Sudan Tribune - Hamdok says revolution is civilian-military alliance

Sudan Tribune reports that Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok stressed that the Sudanese revolution is a result of the alliance between civilians and military.

Hamdok praised the regular armed forces for “protecting democracy,” underling the military’s role in the collapse of al-Bashir’s regime, which reflects the Sudanese revolution being a “model of national consensus.”

Hamdok stressed that the Sudanese model is based on a partnership between civilians and the military to build a democratic state and the rule of law.

Hamdok also added that the military participation in the transition is among the major obstacles hindering Sudan’s removal from the US State Sponsor of Terrorism list.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Arman calls on Sudan’s Hamdok to reshuffle his cabinet

26/12/2019: Sudan Tribune - Arman calls on Sudan’s Hamdok to reshuffle his cabinet

Sudan Tribune reports that Yasir Arman, the deputy head of the SPLM-North called for a Cabinet reshuffle that would include new figures who support the demands of the Sudanese street.

Arman said: “there is a weakness in the performance of several important ministries, which must be resolved and bringing in ministers who have a vision, political knowledge, needed capabilities, and siding with the people.”

Indeed, the Forces of Freedom and Change had recently called on Hamdok to replace the Foreign and Agriculture Ministers.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - El Mahdi: ‘Talks in current form will not achieve peace in Sudan’

26/12/2019: Radio Dabanga - El Mahdi: ‘Talks in current form will not achieve peace in Sudan’

Radio Dabanga reports that Sadiq El Mahdi, chairman of the National Umma Party, says that the handling of the Juba peace talks, in their current form, will not achieve piece,

El Mahdi said that the government negotiation team is moving without an agreed strategy, and that the negotiators on the side of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) rebel alliance do not have a unified vision.

“The mediation mechanism is divided and does not have the required weight, which would automatically drop all the sanctions directed against the deposed regime,” El Mahdi added.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Christmas message: Minister apologises to Sudan’s Christians for their suffering

26/12/2019: Radio Dabanga - Christmas message: Minister apologises to Sudan’s Christians for their suffering

In a Christmas speech, Nasredin Mofreh, Sudan’s Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments, has expressed his apology to Christians for “the unjust and clumsy policies” that their families and their religion were subjected to during the deposed Al Bashir regime.

Mofreh also apologised to Sudanese Christians “for the oppression and harm inflicted on your bodies, the destruction of your temples, the theft of your property, and the unjust arrest and prosecution of your servants and confiscation of church buildings.”

Mofreh further called for the need to uphold the values of religious tolerance, fraternal solidarity, family cohesion, and preserving the values of mutual compassion and solidarity established in Islam and Christianity.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Arrest warrant for Sudanese Islamic hardliner

26/12/2019: Radio Dabanga - Arrest warrant for Sudanese Islamic hardliner

Radio Dabanga reports that the Public Prosecutor in Khartoum has issued an arrest warrant for famous Sudanese Islamist preacher, Abdelhay Yousef, based on a complaint against him filed by Sudan’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Walaa El Boushi.

The arrest could not be implemented because Yousef is outside Sudan. Yousef accused El Boushi of infidelity after the launch of Sudan’s first women’s football league. 

El Boushi called on the Sudanese public to disavow the language of incitement and extremism, and for God’s platforms to be used to spread peace and love rather than discord and hatred.

A second arrest warrant has been issued against Yousef, concerning “the ownership of illegal wealth”, as he allegedly received an amount of $5 million from the ousted president Omar Al Bashir for the support of the Taiba TV channel.