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April 17, 2019
Bashir moved to prison
Uganda may offer ex-president political asylumKHARTOUM — Deposed ex-Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has been moved to Khartoum’s grim high-security Kobar prison from the presidential residence, family sources said on Wednesday, and transitional military rulers announced steps to crack down on corruption.The Sudanese Professionals’ Association (SPA), leading the revolt, has called for sweeping change to end violent crackdowns on dissent, purge corruption and cronyism and ease an economic crisis that worsened ...
April 16, 2019
Sudan protesters toughen stand
Khartoum — Sudanese protesters have hardened their stand, demanding a transitional military council be scrapped and immediately replaced with civilian rule as Tuesday they refused to end a days-long sit-in outside army headquarters.Protest leaders have gradually toughened their approach towards the transitional military council, as policy announcements from its uniformed officers have multiplied.Amid widespread anger at the number of faces from the old regime, the protesters secured the replacement of ...
April 15, 2019
Sudan restructures military council
Khartoum — Sudan's military council on Monday said it was restructuring the military command council and appointed Col. Gen. Hashem Abdel Muttalib Ahmed Babakr as army chief of staff.Col. Gen. Mohamed Othman Al-Hussein was appointed as deputy chief of staff, the council said in a statement.But military rulers faced pressure from demonstrators and Western governments to hand power to a new civilian government as activists warned of an attempt to ...
April 14, 2019
Sudan awaits civilian govt
Khartoum — Sudanese protest organizers have presented demands to the country's new military rulers, urging the creation of a civilian government, the group spearheading demonstrations said.Thousands remained encamped outside Khartoum's army headquarters overnight to keep up the pressure on a military council that took power after ousting veteran leader Omar Al-Bashir on Thursday.A 10-member delegation representing the protesters delivered their demands during talks with the council late Saturday, according to ...
April 13, 2019
New head of military council promises civilian government
KHARTOUM — The new head of Sudan's transitional military council said on Saturday that a civilian government would be established after consultations with opposition forces and promised that the transitional period would last for a maximum of two years.In his first televised address, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan Abdulrahman said he was canceling a night curfew ordered by his predecessor and ordered the release of all prisoners jailed under emergency ...
April 12, 2019
Sudanese woman in iconic protest image reports getting death threats
NEW YORK — A woman who has come to symbolize protests in Sudan after being photographed chanting atop a car during protests against President Omar Bashir said on Thursday she had received death threats since her image went viral.Clad in white, Alaa Salah can be seen poised above the crowds in Khartoum, where demonstrators gathered to demand the military hand over power to civilians.The ouster on Thursday of Bashir, 75, ...
April 12, 2019
Two Cuban doctors in Kenya kidnapped by suspected jihadists
NAIROBI — Suspected Somali Al-Shabaab militants kidnapped two Cuban doctors in northeastern Kenya on Friday and killed their police escort officer, officials said.The operation happened as the two doctors — a general practitioner and a surgeon —were on the way to work in the town of Mandera, close to the border with Somalia.“Today at around 9:00 a.m., suspected Al-Shabaab militants abducted the two Cuban doctors stationed at the Mandera County ...
April 12, 2019
Sudan new military rulers offer dialogue as protests rage
KHARTOUM — Sudan’s new military rulers vowed on Friday to open a dialogue with all political groups on forming a civilian government as protesters railed against their seizure of power after ousting President Omar Bashir.But the military council warned it would tolerate no breaches of security after protesters defied a nighttime curfew to keep up a sit-in demanding immediate civilian rule.The head of the council’s political committee, Lieutenant General Omar ...
April 11, 2019
Bashir brought down by people he ruled with iron fist
KHARTOUM — Sudanese leader Omar Bashir was finally brought down in a popular uprising by the very people he ruled with an iron fist for 30 years.One of Africa’s longest-serving presidents, the 75-year-old had remained defiant in the face of months-long protests that left dozens of demonstrators dead in clashes with security forces.But his fate was sealed when the army bowed to the demands on the street and intervened on ...
April 11, 2019
Sudan army topples veteran leader Bashir
KHARTOUM — Sudanese President Omar Bashir was ousted by the army on Thursday, brought down by months of anti-government protests against his three decades of iron-fisted rule.“I announce as minister of defense the toppling of the regime and detaining its chief in a secure place,” Defense Minister Awad Ibnouf said in a somber televised address to the nation.A transitional military council would replace Bashir for two years, he said, adding ...
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