SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Sudan authorities detain Empowerment Removal Committee members

10/2/2022: Radio Dabanga - Sudan authorities detain Empowerment Removal Committee members

Radio Dabanga reported on the arrests of three members of Sudan’s Tamkeen committee, an anti-corruption body that aimed to dismantle the deep-state linked to ousted dictator Omar al-Bashir – Wajdi Saleh, former Cabinet Affairs Minister Khalid Omar Yousif and committee secretary-general Tayib Osman Yousif.

Adel Khalafallah, a leading member in the opposition Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), described the measures as “political, illegal, and immoral”, adding that the goal of holding the members was to only prolong their detention.

The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) condemned the campaign of arrests carried out by coup authorities against political leaders and resistance committees, and said they were an effort by the coup authorities to defame the committee’s actions with reports and criminal cases, to conceal the return of ousted regime members and cancel the committee’s progress in recouping assets.