SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – 32 civilians dead in ‘Sudanese army’ attack in disputed Abyei region

22/1/2020: Multiple sources – 32 civilians dead in ‘Sudanese army’ attack in disputed Abyei region

• Sudan Tribune

• Bloomberg, by Mohammed Alamin

• Radio Dabanga

• Reuters

• AP

32 people were reportedly killed, 25 injured, three children went missing, and 19 houses were torched in an attack by gunmen Kolom village 10 kilometres north of the town of Abyei in the disputed oil-rich region on Sudan’s border with South Sudan.

According to Reuters, the attacks were perpetrated by suspected Messiriya tribesmen.

However, Akon Akol, governor of Abyei told Radio Dabanga that the assailants are “affiliated to the Sudanese Armed Forces.”

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - West Darfur sheikhs: ‘RSF militia must leave El Geneina’

22/1/2020: Radio Dabanga - West Darfur sheikhs: ‘RSF militia must leave El Geneina’  

Radio Dabanga reports that leaders, omdas, and sheikhs of the camps for the displaced near El Geneina, capital of West Darfur, demand that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia leave the city and start collecting weapons in the area.

They also called for the camps protected by the United Nations, the army, or the police, adding that they cannot return to the camps unless their safety is guaranteed.

The local leaders were speaking during their meeting with a delegation of the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) led by Mohamed Naji El Asam, that visited El Geneina.

The El Geneina Crisis Committee holds the West Darfur governor and the state security responsible for the massacre at the end of 2019.