SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Resistance Committees 'do not agree' with Darfur's El Geneina sit-in

29/1/2021: Radio Dabanga - Resistance Committees 'do not agree' with Darfur's El Geneina sit-in

 Radio Dabanga report that Resistance Committees in al-Geneina of West Darfur condemned a sit-in held by Arab tribespeople who are protesting the policies of the West Darfur government by closing roads, bridges and air routes. The Arab protesters demand the dismissal of the local governor, removal of camps for internally displaced persons and a restructured police force.

However, al-Geneina Resistance Committees claim: "the sit-in was started in the name of certain tribes and was led by a number of supporters of the ousted Omar al-Bashir regime," expressing their support to the governor “who gained his position [due to] the Sudanese revolution.”

The governor and his employees belong to the Masalit, a non-Arab sedentary tribe. The sit-in has caused a lack of supply of basic goods, including medical supplies, according to the Resistance Committees.

SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: The Sentry - Sudan's Push for Removal from US Terror List: Not a Panacea

29/1/2020: The Sentry - Sudan's Push for Removal from US Terror List: Not a Panacea, by Hilary Mossberg and John Prendergast

To facilitate Sudan’s economic recovery, the Sentry call for  “multiple, methodical steps” both Sudan and the US.

Disputing the notion that Sudan’s economic issues are caused by its designation as a state sponsor of terrorism (SST), the Sentry attributing Sudan’s inability to secure debt relief to its pre-existing debts to the IMF and World Bank.

Arguing that foreign investment is inhibited by corruption and deep-state’s monopoly of the banking sector, the Sudanese government is called upon to enforce anti-money laundering laws and generate transparency across the economy. The Sentry also identify the need for specific action in the gold sector, which is “riddled” with money laundering, illicit financial flows, and human rights violations.

The Sentry also call for the US, other concerned government, the African Union and the European Union to imposed targeted sanctions on the security sector to prevent it from spoiling economic and democratic reforms. 

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - UAE security firm repatriates Sudanese youth from Libya after protests

29/1/2020: Sudan Tribune - UAE security firm repatriates Sudanese youth from Libya after protests

Sudan Tribune reports that Sudanese youth who had been sent to Libya by the Black Shield, an Emirati security firm, returned to Sudan following protests outside the UAE embassy.

The families of the returnees accuse the UAE’s government of being behind the Black Shield security company.

The Black Shield signed contracts with 300 Sudanese youth to work as security guards in the UAE. But, once they arrived in the UAE, they received military training and sent to Libya against their will.

The involvement of the UAE-based security firm in this affair comes amid reports of senior Sudanese officials supporting the UAE in attempts to help Libyan General Khalifa Haftar in his war against the UN-backed government.

The families of the youth said that their children were sent to guard strategic locations and oil refineries in areas controlled by Haftar’s forces.