SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Six women, child kidnapped on Sudan-Ethiopia border

15/10/2020: Radio Dabanga - Six women, child kidnapped on Sudan-Ethiopia border

 Radio Dabanga report that six Sudanese women and a child were kidnapped by Ethiopian gunmen in al-Gadarif. Their captors are demanding a ransom of half a million Sudanese Pounds from their families for their release.

The al-Fashaga Lands Committee said in a statement that the kidnaping occurred in the agricultural lands adjacent to al-Leya village in al-Gureisha locality, while the women were tilling their farms on the eastern bank of the Atbara River. The committee attributed the repeated crimes of kidnapping, murder, and theft to the government’s failure to dealing with the issue of disputed lands.

The Lands Committee complains that Ethiopian gunmen are again wreaking havoc at the al-Gadarif-Ethiopian border.

A week earlier, a group of gunmen from Ethiopia (called shifta in the region) prevented farmers from the villages of Jemeiza and Um Disa in East El Galabat from harvesting their sesame crops.