KHARTOUM: Sudan’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the killing of 18 Sudanese people during an attack by an armed group from Chad, state media reported.
The killings took place on Thursday when Sudanese herders from West Darfur state were ambushed while following the trails of camels looted by the Chadians the day before, according to Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council.
On Saturday, Sudan’s acting Foreign Minister Ali Al-Sadiq conveyed his country’s “protest and condemnation of the incident,” in a meeting with Chad’s ambassador to Khartoum.
He also “demanded that Chad exert an effort to arrest the assailants and to recover the stolen items,” according to Sudan’s official news agency.
Sudan has faced deepening unrest since army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan led a military coup in October last year.
The putsch upended a transition to civilian rule put in place following the 2019 ouster of President Omar Bashir.
The power grab exacerbated political and economic turmoil in the country.
The security situation has deteriorated, with a spike in ethnic clashes in Sudan’s far-flung regions.
Thursday’s incident sparked anger among Sudanese living in Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state near the border with Chad.
The deputy head of the Sovereign Council, Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, had on Thursday been in N’Djamena where he discussed border security in a meeting with Chad’s leader Gen. Mahamat Idriss Deby.
On Friday, Daglo called for restraint and vowed during the funeral of the slain Sudanese herders to take actions to bring “the chaos” along the border under control.
Daglo commands the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces which emerged from the Janjaweed militia unleashed in Darfur by the government of then-President Bashir.
A Bashir ally, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, is on trial at the International Criminal Court in the Hague for war crimes allegedly committed in Darfur roughly two decades ago when he was a Janjaweed commander.
Bashir is also wanted by the court.
Last month, Burhan pledged to step aside and make way for civilian groups to form a new government but Sudan’s main civilian bloc dismissed the move as a “ruse.”
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- Sudan has faced deepening unrest since army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan led a military coup in October last year
Kremlin: Room for negotiation on Iran ‘not exhausted’
- Spokesman Dmitry Peskov called for all sides to show restraint and refrain from force
MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Thursday there was still room for negotiations in the standoff between ally Tehran and Washington, after US President Donald Trump threatened new military strikes on Iran.
The US has not ruled out using force against Iran, with rights groups saying Tehran’s crackdown on protests left thousands dead.
“It is clear that the potential for negotiations is not exhausted,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, including from AFP.
He called for “all sides to show restraint and refrain from methods of force,” saying: “Any use of force can only create chaos in the region and lead to very dangerous consequences.”
Trump warned that the US was “ready, willing and able” to hit Iran “if necessary.”
The Islamic Republic’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi said its forces have their “fingers on the trigger” to “powerfully respond” to any US strikes.
Iran emerged as one of Russia’s main allies during the war in Ukraine.
Independent groups said Iranian security forces have killed thousands while suppressing mass protests against Tehran’s regime.
The US has not ruled out using force against Iran, with rights groups saying Tehran’s crackdown on protests left thousands dead.
“It is clear that the potential for negotiations is not exhausted,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, including from AFP.
He called for “all sides to show restraint and refrain from methods of force,” saying: “Any use of force can only create chaos in the region and lead to very dangerous consequences.”
Trump warned that the US was “ready, willing and able” to hit Iran “if necessary.”
The Islamic Republic’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi said its forces have their “fingers on the trigger” to “powerfully respond” to any US strikes.
Iran emerged as one of Russia’s main allies during the war in Ukraine.
Independent groups said Iranian security forces have killed thousands while suppressing mass protests against Tehran’s regime.
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