SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Hamdok sacks Kassala governor Saleh Ammar

14/10/2020: Multiple sources – Hamdok sacks Kassala governor Saleh Ammar

Radio Dabanga

Sudan Tribune

 Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok dismissed Kassala state Governor Saleh Ammar, who had remained in Khartoum following his appointment due to objections to his appointment by several ethnic groups, especially the Beja.

 The Beni Amer and Habab Youth Association plan civil disobedience protests in Kassala and neighbouring Red Sea state, with protesters blocking roads in Kassala in opposition to the decision. Radio Dabanga note that the aforementioned tribes speak Tigre, rather than Beja.

 Chief nazir  of the Beni Amer, Ali Diglel, described the decision to dismiss Ammar as “shameful, because the campaign calling for his removal is based on racist arguments, distrust, and the slandering of our identity”.

 Ammar recently proposed an initiative to achieve peace and social coexistence in the eastern region.