SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Sudan officials nearly killed in West Kordofan, activist held in Blue Nile
Radio Dabanga reports that armed men attempted to shoot two members of the Anti-Corruption Committee dead in West Kordofan.
A vehicle that was carrying Hussein Bakkar, secretary of the Arab Socialist Baath Party in West Kordofan, and lawyer Ibrahim El-Ahmar, both members of the Empowerment Elimination, Anti-Corruption, and Funds Recovery Committee, was shot at.
The Ba’ath Party called the attack “a political assassination, aiming to eliminate West Kordofan state leaders as part of a plan to launch a counter-revolution against change” in the country, holding the General Intelligence Service (GIS) “fully responsible for this crime’s security, social, and political repercussions”, and urged the West Kordofan authorities “to take all measures to bring the perpetrators to justice.”