SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Sudanese journalists denounce army accusations

21/7/2020: Radio Dabanga - Sudanese journalists denounce army accusations

 Radio Dabanga reports that the Sudanese Journalists Network (SJN) strongly condemns a verbal attack on journalist Adil Kolor by army officer Major General Amin Ismail.

 In a televised discussion about Sudan’s military dealing with weapons and explosives during Omar al-Bashir’s regime, Kolor spoke about the 1998 US missile attack on al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Bahri, and alleged Israeli airstrikes between 2009-2014 targeting Iranian arms smuggled through Sudan to Gaza.

 Accusing Kolor of terrorism and warning him to not reveal such military details again, Ismail said an official complaint would be filed against Kolor concerning the disclosure of military secrets.

 The SJN said “these threats are not different from the targeting of journalists [during al-Bashir’s regime]”. The SJN also confirmed complaints by the Sudanese Armed Forces against journalists and activists on the basis of “the defective Information Law” and “an attack on the civil freedoms in the country”.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - FFC armed groups reiterate demand to include their positions in Sudan’s document

21/7/19: Sudan Tribune - FFC armed groups reiterate demand to include their positions in Sudan’s document

 Sudan Tribune reports that the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) has insisted that its proposals for peace and democratic transition should be included in the Forces of Freedom and Change’s political agreement with the military junta, not merely the constitutional declaration.

 SRF spokesman Mohamed Zakaria Farajalla told Sudan Tribune that the SRF requests a delay in the formation of the transitional authority until peace deals are reached for Darfur, the Blue Nile and Kordofan, proposing the formation of a caretaker government for the time being until a peace agreement was reached and included in the political agreement.

 He also said that including the SRF’s positions on the political agreement in the constitutional declaration is legally inconsistent, saying that the political agreement is the source and should include all issues, whereas the constitutional declaration is a decree carrying legal provisions that reflect what is stated in the political agreement.