SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - UN Secretary-General condemns looting of former UNAMID site in North Darfur

24/2/2021: Multiple sources - UN Secretary-General condemns looting of former UNAMID site in North Darfur

• Sudan Tribune

• Radio Dabanga

• UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the looting of the former team site of the United Nations-African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID) in Saraf Omra in North Darfur. The site was ransacked and ‘levelled’ by looters on February 17, just weeks after it was handed over to the Sudanese government.

 Guterres laments that “at a time when community needs in Sudan are increasingly pressing, the site was intended to serve as a vocational training centre; unknown assailants have dashed that opportunity”. 

The Secretary-General’s statement calls on the Sudanese authorities to investigate the incident and ensure sufficient security presences for subsequent handovers so that facilities are preserved for civilian use.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – US Supreme Court to more damages against Sudan over embassy bombings in 1998

24/2/2020: Multiple sources – US Supreme Court to more damages against Sudan over embassy bombings in 1998

• Bloomberg, by Greg Farrell

• Reuters, by Andrew Chung

The US President Donald Trump administration is poised to argue before the Supreme Court that victims of 1998 Al-Qaeda bombings of US embassies in East Africa should be compensated by Sudan, which at that time harboured the attack’s plotters, Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda members.

 The US Supreme Court “appeared open” to reinstating $4.3 billion in punitive damages against Sudan in lawsuits following the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.

 Sudan denies the allegations.