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May 10 - 2021 KHARTOUM
The Sudanese Fiqh Academy issued a
fatwa on Sunday, barring the planned ratification of the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The No to Oppression of Women Initiative calls for the dissolution of the Academy.
In end April, the Council of Ministers endorsed the ratification of CEDAW and the Maputo Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. The Council noted reservations to some articles of CEDAW (Article 2, 16, and 29/1) without giving further details. The text is to be formally ratified in a joint meeting of the Sovereignty Council and the Council of Ministers.
January 15 - 2021 EL GEDAREF
Sovereign Council member, Lt Gen Shamseldin Kabbashi (File photo)
Yesterday, the Sudanese Civil Aviation Authority set up a no-fly zone over El Fashaga border area in El Gedaref, after an Ethiopian military warplane entered Sudanese airspace on Wednesday.
Aircraft will not be allowed to fly above El Fashaga border area lower than 29,000 feet. The restriction is effective from January 14 to April 11.
Minister of Information, Feisal Mohamed Saleh, denied that Sudan and Ethiopia are in conflict over the border in a press statement at Khartoum Airport.
The actual demarcation of the borders on the ground can be considered a settled matter, he said, given that the status of the borders is determined by agreements signed by Ethiopia, including the 1903 and 1972 accords.
January 13 - 2021 EL GEDAREF
El Gedaref governor Suleiman Ali visiting the border area on Monday (SUNA)
The number of victims from the Ethiopian attack on the village of Leya, El Gureisha locality in El Gedaref, on Monday rose to seven, after a woman’s body was found yesterday near the Atbara river.
Ethiopian militiamen launched an attack on Leya on Monday, killing five women and a child while they were harvesting sorghum. A committee formed by those affected by the conflict in El Fashaga reported in a statement yesterday that the body of a seventh woman was found, though at a different place from where the other bodies were found.