SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Sudan Tribune  – Facts and lies about the 25 October Coup in Sudan

6/5/2022: Sudan Tribune  – Facts and lies about the 25 October Coup in Sudan, by Khalid Mukhtar Salim

 

Khalid Mukhtar Salim warns that addressing “cosmetic pretexts” rather than the “real reasons” for the coup will buy time to legitimise it, citing a broad pro-coup camp that is not guided by national interest or ideology, but rather, “their desire to monopolise power to serve personal interests”.

 

Salim adds that the pro-coup coalition are “political aspirants bribed with wealthy government ranks and positions in army-owned companies” such as past and present leaders of armed movements including: Mubarak Ardol and Ali Askouri.

 

Salim notes how military leader Abdulfattah al-Burhan is rehabilitating Islamists from ex-president Omar al-Bashir’s regime in order to build his pro-coup coalition, although it fuels increasing frictions between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)  militia and Islamists who are hostile against it and feed discontents into the army over the RSF’s growing influence.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AP - African Union and UN support civilian-led Sudan transition

6/5/19: AP - African Union and UN support civilian-led Sudan transition

 AP reports that the African Union and the United Nations say they are supporting a civilian-led transitional government in Sudan.

 AU Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat told reporters after meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, that there is no question of sustaining the military council that assumed power after Omar Al Bashir’s ouster, saying “it is not acceptable.”

 But he said military members could be part of a civilian government.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Sudan’s RSF foils sabotage attempt in Khartoum

6/5/19: Multiple sources - Sudan’s RSF foils sabotage attempt in Khartoum

Reuters

Sudan Tribune

Sudan forces seized explosives belts, guns including rifles fitted with silencers, devices used to detonate explosives remotely and satellite telephones in a raid on a property in the capital Khartoum, the state news agency SUNA reported.

 A contingent of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), acing on a tip, carried out the raid in Al Taif district of Khartoum, the agency said.

 It was not known if the weapons cache was linked in any way to the country’s current political crisis. The news agency did not say if anyone was arrested or who owned the weapons.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters - ICC will no longer refer Jordan to U.N. for failure to arrest Sudan's Bashir

6/5/19: Reuters – ICC will no longer refer Jordan to U.N. for failure to arrest Sudan’s Bashir, by Stephanie van den Berg

 Reuters reports that the International Criminal Court will not refer Jordan to the UN  Security Council for its failure to arrest Sudanese war crimes suspect Omar Al Bashir when he visited Amman in 2017, reversing an earlier decision.

 Jordan had cited head of state immunity - which is customary under international law - as the reason for not arresting Al Bashir, but the ICC court initially said immunity no longer applied to Al Bashir due to Sudan’s alleged war crimes.

 However, the ICC’s five-judge panel said that Jordan’s failure to arrest him was not grounds for referral because Jordan had tried to consult with the ICC on the matter ahead of time.