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Subject: Crackdown on press: Sudan seizes print-runs of ten newspapers,
Darfur & Sudan News Update (20 - 26 May)
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*Darfur & Sudan News Update by Radio Dabanga (20 - 26 May)* View
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*Crackdown on press: Sudan seizes print-runs of ten newspapers*
*May 25 – 2015 KHARTOUM Agents of the National Intelligence and Security
Service (NISS) halted the distribution of ten newspapers on Monday. Four
newspapers were suspended indefinitely. All copies of *El Sudani, El
Jareeda, El Khartoum, Akhir Lahza, El Intibaha, El Ray El Aam, Alwan, El
Tayar*, and *El Youm El Tali*, and *El Akhbar
*were confiscated at the printing presses in Khartoum. Editors think that
the newspapers’ reporting about sexual harassment and rapes on buses
transporting students to the universities may have been the reason.
Security officers told the editors-in-chief of *El Jareeda, El Khartoum,
Akhir Lahza *and *El Intibaha *that their newspapers were suspended
indefinitely. Ashraf Abdelaziz, editor-in-chief of *El Jareeda
*, confirmed to Radio Dabanga that the 6,000 copies of his newspaper were
confiscated in the early morning. “The NISS intends to exhaust the
newspapers financially in this way,” he added, “as we still have to pay the
staff and the printing press.” In a similar move on 16 February this year,
a record number of confiscations took place, when the freshly printed
copies of 14 newspapers were seized on one day – without any reason
provided. Sudan rates 176, together with Gambia and Venezuela, of the 199
countries listed in the USA-based Freedom House's annual press freedom
report.*
*Militia besieges newly displaced in East Jebel Marra*
*May 26 - 2015 EAST JEBEL MARRA / KHARTOUM About three thousand people who
fled attacks by militias in several areas in East Jebel Marra two months
ago, continue to be terrorised by members of the paramilitary Rapid Support
Forces (RSF). In North Darfur’s Tawila and Dar El Salam localities, the
militiamen assaulted a number of displaced firewood collectors, and robbed
villagers of their livestock on Monday. One of the residents, who are
hiding in the mountains west of Katur, told Radio Dabanga about their
situation. “We are besieged by the militiamen […] We are stuck, and cannot
leave the mountains anymore to search for water and food, or for
traditional medicines.” Meanwhile, on Sunday, three herders were killed in
an air raid by an Antonov of the Sudanese Air Force in East Jebel Marra.
They were hit by a bomb while letting their livestock graze. In Dar El
Salam locality, a group of gunmen stole about 70 camels. “These RSF *
Janjaweed
*are continuously robbing livestock,” a camel owner said. The UN
Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Sudan, Aristide
Nononsi, pointed in a press briefing on Thursday to the state of insecurity
the Darfuris are living in, “owing to the presence of various armed
elements and criminality that occur within the region”. At the end of his
first mission to the country, Nononsi called upon the Sudanese government
and Unamid to “fulfil their obligation in creating a safe and secure
environment for these displaced communities”.*
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*May 26 - 2015* *TAWILA LOCALITY *A basic school student of Rwanda camp for
the displaced in Tawila locality, North Darfur, was raped by six men on
Sunday. In East Jebel Marra, members of a government militia gang raped
three young firewood collectors on Monday. The coordinator of the Tawila
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*May 25 - 2015* *STOCKHOLM *The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North
(SPLM-N) has accepted the invitation of the European Parliament for a
meeting in June. Mubarak Ardol, spokesman for the SPLM-N negotiation
delegation, announced in a statement on Sunday, that the SPLM-N will
participate in the...
*Darfuri students attacked again in Omdurman, Sudan*
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*May 25 - 2015* *OMDURMAN *On Sunday, Darfuri students at the Omdurman El
Ahliya University were attacked again by militant student members of the
Sudanese ruling party. 11 students were injured. About 815 Darfuri students
have been evicted from dormitories in Khartoum and Dongola. In Canada,
members...
*13 farmers abducted in Central Darfur*
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*May 25 - 2015* *AZUM LOCALITY* Cattle herders took 13 displaced farmers
captive in Azum locality on Sunday. A resident of Tayeba camp for the
displaced near Zalingei, capital of Central Darfur, was shot dead. The
herders started entering their cattle by force on farmlands in the area of
Mara, near Wadi Azum, on...
‘*Open dialogue needed on violence against women in Sudan’: UN Special
Rapporteur*
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*May 24 - 2015* *KHARTOUM *The silence and denials about the existence of
violence against women in Sudan is a challenge that needs to be addressed
as a matter of priority, according to Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur
on Violence against women, its causes and consequences. “A large number of
women...
‘*East, West, and North Darfur mostly affected by measles’: OCHA*
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*May 24 - 2015* *KHARTOUM *As of 3 May, 4,127 suspected cases of measles
have been reported in Sudan, with 2,336 cases confirmed. The total number
of deaths in 2015 has risen to 35, with recent fatalities reported in East
Darfur. East, West, and North Darfur account for 25 of the 35 reported
deaths (71.4 percent)...
*Darfur displaced urge UN expert to look into security, services*
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*May 22 - 2015** NYALA / EL FASHER *Displaced people living in the camps in
Darfur whom were visited by the UN Independent Expert on the situation of
human rights in Sudan, affirmed that they will not return to their home
areas, unless they are secure and freed of militias and weapons. Leaders
and sheikhs...
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*May 22 - 2015** KHARTOUM *The Khartoum Criminal Court raised charges
against two politicians from the opposition, arrested in White Nile state
during a large anti-election campaign this year. Mohamed Yousif El Bokh and
Omar El Faki, two affiliates of the Sudanese Congress Party, were charged
on Wednesday...
*Sudanese refugees in Chad refuse voluntary return*
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*May 22 - 2015** KHARTOUM / GAGA CAMP *The Sudan, Chad and the United
Nations High Commissioners for Refugees held a joint meeting in Khartoum to
discuss the return of Sudanese refugees residing in twelve camps in eastern
Chad. Babiker Ahmad Digna, the State Minister of Interior, confirmed...
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*May 21 - 2015* *GIREIDA *On Wednesday, tea sellers from the Gireida camp
for the displaced in South Darfur staged a sit-in on Wednesday, in front of
the offices of the security apparatus and the locality commissioner,
against the detention of a colleague. The teachers of Gireida town embarked
on a strike in protest...
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*May 21 - 2015* *BAU LOCALITY *Fayda Organisation, operating in Blue Nile
state, and the Arab Coalition for Sudan have expressed their concern about
the violence employed by government forces against villagers in Bau
locality. In a statement on Wednesday, the organisations reported that on
Tuesday...
*North Darfur army troops to protect Kutum market*
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*May 21 - 2015* *KUTUM *The traders at the market of Kutum have lifted
their strike on Tuesday, after the government of North Darfur affirmed it
will provide protection to the market stores. After the abduction of a
merchant for ransom early last week, following a series of robberies, the
market traders decided to embark...
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