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Former Darfur rebel leader returns to Khartoum SudanTribube.com
April 3, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Mustafa Tambour, leader of a Sudan Liberation Movement faction (SLM s) arrived in the capital, Khartoum, on Saturday, after signing the Juba peace agreement last March.
Tambour was a former military spokesman for the SLM, led by Abdel Wahid al-Nur before his arrest by the former regime on December 11, 2015, near Ed-Daein of East Darfur. However, he did not regain his group after his release in June 2017.
He joined the Juba Peace Agreement on 25 March in a ceremony attended by the head of the government peace delegation Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (Hemetti).
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Sudan can protect civilians in Darfur, Hamdok tells AUPSC
April 1, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese Prime Minister reassured African Union about his government’s ability to protect civilians in Darfur after the end of the hybrid operation in the western Sudan region.
Abdallah Hamdok and head of the Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan met on Thursday with a visiting delegation of the African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC), at the end of a three-day field mission from 29 March to 1 April.
The purpose of the visit is to assess the implementation of the Juba peace agreement and the progress towards the democratic transition in line with the Council’s mandate to promote and enhance peace, security and stability in Africa.
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February 2021
Criminal groups abducted hundreds in north west, while ethnic and regional tensions ran high in south amid farmer-herder conflict; meanwhile, tensions rose in south east between govt and Biafra secessionists. Criminal groups in Feb reportedly killed at least 112 and kidnapped over 450 people, mostly in Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto and Zamfara states (north west), but also in Niger state (Middle Belt). Notably, armed group 17 Feb abducted 42 students and school personnel in Niger state, released them 27 Feb; 26 Feb kidnapped 279 girls in Zamfara state. Meanwhile, Auwalun Daudawa, who masterminded Dec 2020 abduction of 344 students in Katsina state, 8 Feb laid down arms along with five of his troops. Amid rise in herder-farmer and intercommunal violence in south since Jan, clashes between ethnic Hausa and Fulani on one hand, and ethnic Yoruba on the other, early Feb killed two dozen people in Oyo state capital Ibadan (south west). Nobel laureate in literature Wole Soyinka 6 F