KASS (25 Mar.) – Twenty three people were killed yesterday in continued clashes between the Misseriya and Nuwayba in villages around Kass. Dozens more were injured. Witnesses told Radio Dabanga that more than 48 armed sport utility vehicles and two Renault trucks attacked the villages of Tourgoun, Tabo Fotto, Duwayr and Dibis, fifteen kilometers northeast of Kass. Thousands of civilians were displaced by the fighting. The attackers burned villages and looted property and livestock. Observers said that the clashes had expanded to include camel raiding. (more...)
TAWILA (25 Mar.) - The Ministry of Health re-opened the hospital after three months of renovation work undertaken by the French organization Doctors Without Borders. The hospital will provide better and free health services and is equipped with good equipment and air-conditioning. (more...)
MERSHING (25 Mar.) - Displaced from Mershing, Dhomma and Menawashe in South Darfur complained about a lack of food, water and health services. A number of people displaced from Mershing told Radio Dabanga they have no choice except to leave the camps and live in the outskirts of Nyala unless the World Food Program resume their usual food ration distribution. (more...)
EL GENEINA (25 Mar.) -- A number of candidates for the national assembly and the state legislative assembly expressed their concern with the deteriorating security situation in West Darfur State, which obstructs the electoral campaign. Access to remote villages was not possible due to insecurity and displacement. (more...)
NYALA (25 Mar.) – Security forces detained Saleh Adam, a student at the faculty of engineering, when the security dispersed a group of student from Nyala University. A student told Radio Dabanga that Saleh was beaten and taken to an unknown detention place. He asked for his immediately release, expressing fears of mistreatment.
DOHA (25 Mar.) -- A leader in the Umma national party, Ali Hassan Taj al Din, urged the rebel movements to unify and join the forthcoming peace talks in Doha to put an end to the suffering of the people of Darfur. He urged them to join with an unified negotiating position.
BRUSSELS (24 Mar.) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Louis Ocampo said that monitoring Sudan's election next month would be like monitoring a vote in Germany in Hitler’s time. Ocampo was speaking at a news conference in Brussels in front of observers of the European Union delegation to monitor the elections in Sudan. (more...)
DOHA (24 Mar.) – The Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) ruled out any possibility of signing a final peace deal in Doha between the movement and the government by the end of this month. Hashim Hamad, political secretary of the movement told Radio Dabanga it is difficult to start peace negotiations before April.
KHARTOUM (24 Mar.) – Presidential candidate Yasir Arman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement said that the National Congress Party has hindered the entrance of United Nations pilots who would transport ballot boxes throughout the country. Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, Vice-President asked the SPLM leader Salva Kiir to allow the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) to transport the ballot boxes to the south. He pointed out that Salva Kiir has refused this demand. (more...)
KHARTOUM (24 Mar.) - The head of the Horn of Africa peace-building center, Taysir Mohamed Ahmed said the warning of expulsion of international election monitors out of Sudan by President Bashir and his threat to cut off noses, throats and hands shows the nature of his totalitarian and dictatorial regime. (more...)
KHARTOUM (24 Mar.) - On the day of the elections people have to go to the polling stations. With the aid of pictures they round through the polling station.
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