SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: AFP - Sudan's desert nomads untouched by Bashir's downfall

13/7/19: AFP - Sudan's desert nomads untouched by Bashir's downfall

 AFP’s feature spoke to Sudanese Arab nomadic camel traders “oblivious” to Sudan’s uprising, as well as those who supported Omar Al Bashir’s war in Darfur.

 “We have all that we need in the desert… we don't care about politics. I don't even go to Khartoum.” said Ali Habiballah from El Molih, a vast swathe of desert about 100 kilometres west of Khartoum.

 "The Arabs would be happy if Bashir was still around… I want Bashir, our father, to be back " said Ali Salim Hamid, from North Kordofan.

 Hamid also denied the RSF’s role in the June 3 massacred and credited Himedti for protecting camel traders from thieves in the desert.

 Hamid said whoever forms the new administration in Sudan “is of little importance to us as long as it does not interfere in our business.”