The Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council, Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, returned to Sudan on Saturday evening after his visit to New York, where he addressed the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, and met several world leaders on the side lines of the session. En route from New York to Khartoum, El Burhan touched down in Cairo for a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi. Upon landing in Khartoum last night, El Burhan was greeted on the tarmac by his deputy, Lt Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti’.
The head of the Sudan Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, left Khartoum for London on Sunday morning, accompanied by Foreign Minister-designate, Ambassador Ali El Sadig, to attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, who died at the age of 96 on Thursday.
The Chadian joint forces expressed their regret over last week’s incidents surrounding clashes between Sudanese herdsman and armed Chadian groups, which according to them has left 27 dead and 36 injured in the Bir Saliba area of West Darfur.
An armed group, believed to be Chadian, ambushed and killed 18 people tracking their stolen camels in the Bir Saliba area of West Darfur on Thursday. In a separate attack in Central Darfur on Friday, five members of the Sudanese regular forces were killed.
The Arab herdsmen were ambushed by the Chadian gunmen
Sudan’s Alternative Sea Port Workers Union announced its rejection of a reported project to establish a new port funded by Abu Dhabi Ports in partnership with the DAL Group private company. The company itself has denied reaching any agreements.