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The Hadhreen initiative published a documentary report yesterday on the violations against peaceful pro-democracy protesters dating from the October 25, 2021, military coup to August 4 of this year. At least 116 protesters had died at the hands of security forces and over 7000 protesters had reportedly been injured up to August, but real numbers are likely to be higher.

After the Sudanese economy showed ‘dismal performance’ in the first half of the 2022 financial year, a report published by the transparency monitor Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker (STPT) predicts a tough last quarter of 2022, and expects a tougher 2023 if military rule persists.

Agenzia Fides: Organo di informazione delle Pontificie Opere Missionarie dal 1927

There has been news of an agreement between the Forces for Freedom and Change-Central Council (FFC-CC) and the military component of the government that provides for a civilian prime minister and a 'government of competencies'. Control over the proposed Security and Defence Council remains a point of contention.

“A victory of the revolutionaries on the basis of a programme of rupture, as advanced by the resistance committees, would open a breach in the bringing to heel of the Arab world and more broadly in Africa.”

Activist and outspoken opponent to the ousted Al Bashir regime, Wajdi Saleh, handed himself over to authorities in Khartoum yesterday, following orders from Sudan’s Public Prosecution Office. The former head of the now-dissolved Empowerment Removal Committee* (ERC) and leading member of the Forces for Freedom and Change-Central Council (FFC-CC) and the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, explained that his being public announcement as a fugitive, was “a clear attempt of character assassination”...

As the harvest season for sesame, millet, and corn begins, farmers in Bielel locality, east of Nyala, capital of South Darfur, have appealed to the state government and security authorities to intervene urgently in order to protect the agricultural season by intensifying the presence of security forces.

The head of the Otash camp for the displaced in South Darfur, Sheikh Abdelrazeg Jales, revealed that a child has died and three others were taken to the hospital in critical condition after being poisoned eating from the landfill in El Kosha near the camp yesterday.

Dozens of airlines that operated both scheduled and non-scheduled flight services have gone moribund since 1960 when Nigeria attained independence from the British colonialists, checks by Daily Trust revealed. Investigations showed that no fewer than 62 airlines at different times in Nigeria’s aviation history have become extinct due to many factors, including an unfriendly business environment and paucity of funds.

Wali (governor) of the Darfur region Minni Minawi has expressed his frustration over the fact that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have still not joined a joint peacekeeping force in Darfur as stipulated by the Juba Peace Agreement, which was signed exactly two years ago yesterday when Minawi held his speech.