SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Sudanese authorities arrest 4 figures of former ruling party

13/2/2021: Sudan Tribune - Sudanese authorities arrest 4 figures of former ruling party

 Sudan Tribune report that Sudanese authorities arrested four members of the dissolved National Congress Party (NCP). The arrests occured after reports from the security agencies that the NCP orchestrated a campaign to destabilise the transitional government to take advantage of the difficult economic situation and the rampant inflation in Sudan.

Mohamed al-Hasan al-Amin, a leading NCP member said the authorities arrested Amin Hassan Omer, journalists Yasir al-Attar and Khawild Abdel Azim, alongside pointing to the arrests of former Vice-President Hassabo Abdel-Rahman, and journalist Hussein Khojali, the publisher of Alwan newspaper and owner of Omdurman TV satellite channel.