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Subject: Bashir escape: 'Sad day for South Africa, a blow to the rule of
law', Darfur & Sudan News Update (10 - 16 June)
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*Darfur & Sudan News Update by Radio Dabanga (10 - 16 June)* View
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*Bashir escape: 'Sad day for South Africa, a blow to the rule of law'*
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*16 June - 2015 KHARTOUM / JOHANNESBURG* *The internally displaced people
living in camps in Darfur have praised the independent decision of a court
in South Africa, which ruled that the government should have arrested
President Omar Al Bashir before he fled the country on Monday afternoon.
President Al Bashir was in South Africa for the African Union summit, when
the Pretoria High Court issued an interim order on Sunday that prevented
him from leaving, until a ruling was made on Monday whether he should be
arrested to stand trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The
president -facing three counts of genocide and two of war crimes in Darfur-
did not await the court ruling, and flew out
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through the military airbase of Waterkloof. South Africa is a state member
of the Rome Statute and violated its obligation by not arresting Al
Bashir. *
*Speaking from the camps in Darfur, coordinator Abdelrazeg Yousif Suleiman
told Radio Dabanga: “The displaced people demand taking the President of
South Africa, Jacob Zuma, to trial, on charges of being complicit -as well
as his presidential staff- with assisting Al Bashir to escape.” The South
African government issued a statement vowing to explain how Al Bashir could
escape, as ordered at the conclusion of the court hearing on Monday
afternoon. *
*When the president returned to Sudanese grounds on Monday afternoon,
Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour praised president Zuma for not carrying
out the arrest. **The narrow escape of President Al Bashir from a possible
hand-over to the ICC caused his supporters to celebrate his return
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but stirred international anger. “This is a sad day for South Africa and a
blow to the rule of law,” says Anton du Plessis, managing director of the
International Institute for Strategic Studies. UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon condemned the South African government’s failure to act.*
*The United Nations and the **South African National Defence Force ** on
Tuesday denied a media report
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that Sudanese troops held South African peacekeepers in Darfur hostage, to
enforce Al Bashir's return. According to South African News24, South
African soldiers were surrounded by heavily armed Sudanese soldiers in the
UN military bases in Kutum, Mellit, and Malha. *
*Sudan regains control of Rokoro at the cost of civilian
lives*
*16 June - 2015 ROKORO / SILEIA **Government forces regained control of
Rokoro in Central Darfur on Monday afternoon, from the months-long grip of
the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid El Nur (SLM-AW). Fighting
reportedly resulted in the death of seventeen civilians.*
*Multiple witnesses said that soldiers and pro-government militias entered
Rokoro in the afternoon, after they had expelled the armed rebels from
Ruvata and Burgo, less than 10 km north of Rokoro. The SLM-AW seized Rokoro
from the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) last March
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A spokesman for the rebels informed Radio Dabanga that three companies will
advance south, to “break the opponent's base” in Fanga.*
*The SLM-AW has been actively fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces and allied
militias over the past week
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in
Rokoro area. This has triggered frequent aerial bombardments
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by the Sudanese Air Force. In four villages north-east of Rokoro, thirteen
civilians were killed by shelling, and four by aerial bombardments by the
Sudanese Air Force and Armed Forces on Monday. Hundreds have fled into
nearby valleys and caves.*
*In the West Darfur capital Sileia, the Sudanese military base came under
attack by the SLM-AW in the early hours of Tuesday. The fighting resulted
in at least a dozen casualties. The commissioner of the Jebel Moon locality
stated that twelve rebels were killed; the SLM-AW spokesman claimed that 25
government forces were killed, and five rebels. Speaking to Radio Dabanga,
a witness added that soldiers from El Geneina, Kulbus and Sirba in West
Darfur gathered to chase down the rebel fighters.*
*More news from Radio Dabanga:*
*Press conference to clarify violent Friday protest in Khartoum*
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*June 16 - 2015 KHARTOUM People in El Gereif East in Khartoum plan to hold
a press conference on Wednesday to clarify the circumstances of the bloody
events on Friday, which claimed the lives of three people. Other
demonstrators were wounded, and dozens...*
*Evidence of Sudan using cluster bombs against Nuba population*
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June 16 - 2015 KHARTOUM The Sudan Armed Forces have used cluster bombs in
raids against the population in the Nuba mountains, South Kordofan.
Pictures provide evidence of cluster ammunition used to hit the capital of
the rebel-held...
*Five people killed in violent incidents in South Darfur*
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*June 16 - 2015 GIREIDA / NYALA / TAWILA / ED DAEIN / TABIT Five people
were killed, and eight others were wounded in four separate incidents in
South Darfur on Monday involving pro-government militiamen. A convoy in
North Darfur...*
*SPLM-N demands probe into Blue Nile bombing and displacement*
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*June 16 - 2015 ED DAMAZIN / BAU The Sudan People's Liberation
Movement-North in Blue Nile state has condemned the aerial bombardments by
the country's air force on Wed Abuk area on Friday, and urges an
investigation into violent...*
*Fourteen women raped by militants in North Darfur*
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*June 15 - 2015 TABIT / KORMA Several incidents involving rape occurred in
East Jebel Marra, in North Darfur, over the weekend. Fourteen women in
total were sexually assaulted at the hands of militiamen, witnesses told
Radio Dabanga...*
*Analysis: Six questions on Al Bashir escaping arrest in South Africa*
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*June 15 - 2015 KHARTOUM The world has never come closer to the
international arrest of Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir as today. Sudan
has never been closer to a regime change since 1989. And it will probably
never come closer than this. The 'Bashir escape'.*
*Two newspaper print-runs seized this weekend in Sudan's capital*
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*June 14 - 2015 KHARTOUM The print-run of **Al Ayam** newspaper in Khartoum
was confiscated on Saturday. Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security
Services also seized copies of **Al Youm Al Tali** newspaper on Friday,
without giving any reasons...*
*HRW: UN should improve protection civilians Darfur*
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June 12 - 2015 NEW YORK *Instead of withdrawing from Darfur, the UN
Security Council should require more vigorous civilian protection in West
Sudan. This says director Daniel Beleke, Africa director at Human Rights
Watch (HRW) in a ...*
*Ransom demanded for abducted aid staff in North Darfur*
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June 12 - 2015 KUTUM The pro-government militiamen who have abducted an
employee of the Irish GOAL organisation and one other man in Kutum town
have demanded a ransom for their release. Abdallah Mustafa Abdallah...
*UN will not end 'dysfunctional' peacekeeping mission in Darfur*
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*June 11 - 2015 KHARTOUM / NEW YORK The UN Assistant Secretary-General for
Peacekeeping Operations, Edmond Mulet, told the 15-member Security Council
on Wednesday that there has been negligible progress in the peace efforts
for...*
*South Darfur maternal mortality rate highest in Sudan*
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June 11 - 2015 KHARTOUM *The maternal mortality rate in Sudan last year
amounted to 216 deaths per 100,000 births. 330 new born children out of
100,000 of newly born children, according to the Sudanese Ministry of
Health Ministry. *Siham...
*Sudanese opposition leaders call on EU to support ‘new peace process’*
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*June 10 - 2015 STRASBOURG A delegation of the Sudanese opposition on
Tuesday briefed EU legislators in Strasbourg on the situation in Sudan, and
called for support to realise peace in Sudan. *In an EU parliamentary
hearing entitled...
*South Sudanese priests moved to Kober prison*
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June 10 - 2015 KHARTOUM *Two South Sudanese pastors facing criminal charges
in Sudan have been moved to a high security prison. Their relatives are not
allowed to visit them anymore. *Rev. Yat Michael Ruot and Rev. David Yein
Reith of the South...
*Unicef alert: Funds run out for support of 100,000 South Sudanese children*
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June 10 - 2015 KHARTOUM *The funds available to respond to the multiple and
critical needs of children, representing more than 60 percent of the South
Sudanese refugees in Sudan, are running out this month. *There are
already...
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