Eleven Ministers representing the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), who participated in the transitional government before the military junta seized power in a coup d’état on October 25, announced that they have submitted their resignations in writing to Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, disavowing the agreement signed in Khartoum on Sunday with junta leader Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, stating that the agreement “legitimises and perpetuates the military coup regime”.
May 6 - 2021 NYALA / KHARTOUM
An UNAMID Force Commander visits Tawila in North Darfur to assess the security situation, February 2015 (Hamid Abdulsalam / Unamid)
Yesterday, the joint UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) officially handed its last site in South Darfur to the authorities in Nyala. A delegation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrived in Khartoum to prepare the visit of Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to Darfur next month.
In his address at the handing ceremony of the Kass site, South Darfur Governor Mousa Mahdi spoke about the importance of the local community in maintaining the UNAMID equipment and machinery. He advised the local leaders to donate the site to the technology college of Nyala University.