Sudan

Governor of Blue Nile state Gen Ahmed El Omda Badi received a UN delegation working on reducing hate speech and hostilities yesterday. … At least 70 people died during the intense intercommunal fighting that took place in July and more than 31,000 people were displaced by the clashes.
(Read also: “Neue Zerreißprobe”, taz, 21.07.2022, German only).

"Time is not on Sudan's side," says Volker Perthes, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Sudan, and head of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS). In a statement yesterday, he called on "all parties to show more commitment and political will" in order to form a civilian-led government as soon as possible.

The Sudan Troika (Norway, UK, USA) has welcomed "the reaffirmation by a range of Sudanese civilian and military stakeholders, as set out in recent public statements, to a civilian-led government leading Sudan's transition to democracy". The three countries further urge a strong women representation in the new government.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan has received a $100 million contribution from the World Bank to assist with critical emergency cash and food sustenance in Sudan.

Fighting has displaced about 2,453 families from villages in the Eastern Jebel Marra part of Sudan’s South Darfur State, the UN agency for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said.

The military junta in Sudan has assured the public of security preparedness after a wave of tribal clashes, raising a new challenge for the country seeking to establish the first transitional government since the October coup.

Ethnic clashes in Sudan’s Blue Nile state in a deadly land dispute killed 105 people and wounded 291, the state’s health minister said, providing a new toll Wednesday. Fighting broke out in the southern state on the borders with Ethiopia and South Sudan on July 11 between members of the Berti and Hausa ethnic groups.

The Troika and European Union on Wednesday called for talks between the political forces and the component military in Sudan to define the role and responsibilities of the army leaders after the decision to withdraw from politics.

Civilians vow to continue their protests despite the army's surprising withdrawal from the transitional government. Activists fear being tricked into supporting a puppet administration under military control.

Sudan's coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Wednesday dismissed the last civilian members from his ruling body as part of a power shift to a new transitional government. Protesters rejecting his pledge to "make room" for civilian groups in government as a "ruse" again took to the streets.