SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Eight people killed in demonstrations in eastern Sudan

16/10/2020: Radio Dabanga - Eight people killed in demonstrations in eastern Sudan

 Radio Dabanga report that eight people were killed, among them a member of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and 31 others injured in Kassala after security forces used live munition to disperse protests staged by supporters of dismissed governor Saleh Ammar.

 Thousands had marched, demanding Ammar’s reinstating, the dismissal of the Secretary General of the Kassala government, and an urgent review of the Eastern Sudan Reconstruction Fund file, alongside fair representation of all communities of eastern Sudan in the institutions of the transitional government and the arrest of the instigators of hate speech, compensation for those affected in the clashes.

 A coalition of 16 tribal chiefs, members of political parties in eastern Sudan, and youth and women groups, said that the dismissal of Governor Saleh Ammar was issued at the wrong time and inappropriate.