SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Sudanese stage protests in first day of civil disobedience campaign

7/11/2021: Multiple sources - Sudanese stage protests in first day of civil disobedience campaign

 

Sudanese military and security agents have continued to arrest civilians including civilian authorities, political activists, human rights defenders, members of resistance committees and others as mass protests and civil disobedience campaigns against the coup continue.

 

Sudanese staged protests against the 25th October coup in several parts across the country in response to a call for civil disobedience by the Sudanese Professional Association (SPA).

 

Pro-democracy protesters took to the street in Khartoum, Madani, Atbara, Nyala and the White Nile despite the internet cuts.

 

Calls for a general strike on 7 and 8 November have been generally successful. The SPA plans to gradually intensify calls for protests and general strikes in order to force the military to hand back power to a civilian government.

SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: BBC - Sudan coup protesters: 'They cannot kill us all'

7/11/2021: BBC - Sudan coup protesters: 'They cannot kill us all', by Andrew Harding

 

The BBC report on Sudanese sentiments following the coup, with Suleima Elkhalifa, who headed a unit in the transitional government tasked with protecting women and children from violence, saying:  "people are more determined now. And more politically aware. After 30 years of military dictatorship, we will not submit. The youth represent more than 50% of this country and it's clear we don't want this government. They cannot kill us all. They cannot kill this dream”.

 

Victims of the military clampdown at Khartoum’s Royal Care hospital, including an 18-year-old student shot in the leg, expressed the same determination.

 

Former BBC journalist Mohanad Hashim said the Tamkeen Committee - created to seize economic assets stolen by powerful figures in the old regime – caused unease among the military as it was “tracing various cases from gold smuggling to currency sales and commissions, all indicating high levels of corruption among high-ranking officers”.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Sudan forces arrest 113 and fire tear gas to disperse protests by teachers

7/11/2021: Multiple sources - Sudan forces arrest 113 and fire tear gas to disperse protests by teachers

At least 113 were arrested when Sudan security forces cracked down on a sit-in at the Education Ministry in Khartoum, in demonstrations against moves to appoint members of ex-dictator Omar al-Bashir’s regime to educational roles,the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) said.

 

Duriya Mohamed Babiker, a leader of the Khartoum Teachers’ Committee told Radio Dabanga that: “the military forces stormed the ministry’s buildings by force and dealt with the protest with excessive violence and fired tear gas”.

 

She said that she was among the women detainees who were held in a large cell. The committee posted on its Facebook page that one of the teachers suffered a miscarriage after her arrest.

 

In the South Darfur capital Nyala, the authorities held two teachers who protested the appointment of Prof Mohamed al-Amin Mustafa as director of the ministry.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Sudan’s SPA proposes new transition’s charter excluding military component

7/11/2021: Sudan Tribune - Sudan’s SPA proposes new transition’s charter excluding military component

 

Sudan Tribune report that the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) proposed a new political charter to overthrow the military council and establish a civilian government without the military component.

 

The draft proposes a new technocrat prime minister, who would form a new transitional cabinet of 20 ministers maximum, and Sovereign Council of a maximum 5. The head of the government, the ministers, and the collegial presidency will not include political leaders but national figures supportive of the revolution and its goals, the SPA proposed.

 

The SPA alleged that army commander-in-chief Abdulfattah al-Burhan remained an obstacle to: abolishing of the laws inherited from the ousted regime, the dismissal of Islamists from the state apparatus and agencies, with the army and its militia hindering the economic reforms as they control 80% of Sudan’s economic resources in the country and refuse to transfer their companies to the government.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan to try to resolve dam dispute by Jan 15 – Treasury

7/11/19: Multiple sources – Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan to try to resolve dam dispute by Jan 15 – Treasury

 The US Treasury Department has announced that the foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan agreed to work toward resolving their dispute over the filling and operation of the Renaissance dam project in Ethiopia by January 15 2020.

 In a joint statement released after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin hosted talks to work out differences over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the ministers said they would attend further meetings in Washington on December 9 and January 13 to assess progress in their negotiations.

 Water ministers of the three countries will hold four meetings in Washington, attended by the Treasury and World Bank, according to the statement.

 If an agreement isn’t reached by the deadline, Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan agreed to invoke an article of a 2015 agreement on Nile-sharing that can lead to them requesting conciliation or mediation, or referring the matter to heads of state, according to the statement.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Sudan rebels insist peace deal must proceed new parliament formation and state governor appointments

7/11/19: Multiple sources - Sudan rebels insist peace deal must proceed new parliament formation and state governor appointments

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Sudan Tribune

 The Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) called on the Sudanese government to not appoint the civilian state governors, or form a new parliament, before a peace agreement is reached, pointing out that such a move would breach the Juba Declaration.

 The Forces of Freedom Change announced on November 3 that they are in the process of appointing state governors and members of the Legislative Council by November 17.

 However, SRF spokesman Osama Said told Sudan Tribune that during the peace talks in Juba, the SRF had rejected the government’s requests that they discard their insistence that the appointment of state governors is delayed until a peace agreement is reached.

 Said added that if the government discards their insistence to delay the appointment of state governors, it would create a state of distrust and further delay a peace agreement.