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2024-07-18 Africa Horn

The Janjaweed Rebranded: Why international community's calls to RSF fall on deaf ears?

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Posted by Fred 2024-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Sudan

#1 back in 2004 or so, the Janjaweed crimes in Dafar were big news

this was twinned with condemnation of the Bush Admin for not preventing it, various truce initiatives led to reducing the violence by about 2006

when Obama became Prez, the Janjaweed were basically out of the news

in 2020 a comprehensive agreement of sorts was signed but in the summer of 2021 renewed violence began and since 2022 there has basically been a civil war between factions of the military

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-07-18 07:58|| 2024-07-18 07:58|| Front Page Top

#2 It would be nice if something other than Sudan Tribune articles appeared here. There is an ethnic struggle going on in the Sudan, with the various ethnicities choosing sides: pro-Arab, or anti-Arab. The Sudan Tribune has chosen the Arab side, Darfur and the western ethnicities have chosen otherwise. The cry has begun that starvation will cause tens of thousands of death in El Fasher, and one can expect the Sudan Tribune will continue to beat that drum in the hope of retaining the only Arab city left in western Sudan.

Posted by AB 2024-07-18 08:10|| 2024-07-18 08:10|| Front Page Top

#3 If you have better English-language sources, AB — or are willing to provide translations, like badanov does for his Ukrainian and Russian sources — please submit articles from them. By design Rantburg is limited to open source information in our attempt since 9/11 to figure out what’s going on in the War on Terror (plus other interesting stuff). But online news sites regularly appear and disappear, so we’re always interested in useful ones, not to mention posters willing to take on coverage of a key area of operation.

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Posted by trailing wife 2024-07-18 12:08|| 2024-07-18 12:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Just one resource: Africa
AFRICA, HORN OF AFRICA
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 561 – 18 July 2024
Date: 18/07/2024
Author: Martin Plaut
Situation in Sudan (per 18 July)
The Ombadda Block 5 neighbourhood in Omdurman is completely uninhabitable due to no remaining services, functional markets, hospitals, or medical centres. Widespread waste and decomposing corpses make the neighbourhood unsanitary.
Representatives from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) travelled to Geneva for “indirect talks” under auspices of the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Sudan, Ramtane Lamamra, focusing on humanitarian aid, safe humanitarian corridors and civilian protection.
Lamamra met separately with representatives from each side, however, a direct meeting between the two Sudanese parties has not been scheduled.
800,000 people are trapped in El Fasher, North Darfur, without food, water or access to medical services, said the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO warned of looming famine and hunger and need for a sustainable plan for delivery of humanitarian and relief supplies.
Hunger and acute lack of food is one of the main reasons for Sudanese refugees to flee the country. “They said it’s not insecurity, it’s not lack of access to basic services, but because we have nothing to eat there,” said Dr Shible Sahbani, WHO Representative to Sudan.
One third of wounded persons of Sudan’s conflict had been women and children under the age of 10, said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Sennar city has been cut off from access to food and fuel by RSF. Flour and rice are fully sold out at the markets and grain mills cannot produce new flour due to the lack of electricity, confirmed resistance committees in Sennar.

Posted by AB 2024-07-18 13:13|| 2024-07-18 13:13|| Front Page Top

#5 This? https://martinplaut.com/2024/07/18/eepa-situation-report-horn-of-africa-no-561-18-july-2024/

Posted by trailing wife 2024-07-18 22:53|| 2024-07-18 22:53|| Front Page Top

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