Sudan: Sudan Central Doctors Committee – Field report (2) – A preliminary inventory of the events of April 16, 2023 (17.04.2023)

For the second day in a row, amid the absurd and bloody fighting between the People’s Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, a large number of deaths and moderate and critical injuries were reported, a fight that claimed the lives of innocent, unarmed civilians.

Our call and appeal remains to rule the voice of reason and stop this war immediately, and allow the opening of safe passages to evacuate the detainees, the stranded, the wounded, and the injured. We also note that hospitals and health facilities are not military shelters and have their own privacy and sanctities. Violating them is a crime against humanity, values, and morals.

All treaties and covenants are forbidden to be violated.

– The total death toll was (41) civilians killed on April 16.

– The total number of injuries reached (347) moderate and critical cases, including both civilians and military personnel, on April 16.

Thus, the number of civilian deaths since the beginning of the clashes reached (97).

The number of injuries since the beginning of these events has reached (942), including both civilians and military personnel.

The dead:

Khartoum:

– (22) dead, including (6) civilian dead, (16) military dead.

Nautical:

– (13) dead, including (4) civilians and (9) military dead.

Omdurman:

– (9) dead, including (5) civilian dead, and (4) military dead.

Regions:

(16) dead, including (13) civilian dead, and (3) military dead.

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Injuries:

Khartoum:

– (195) injuries, including (77) civilian cases, and (118) military cases.

Nautical:

– (72) injuries, including (68) civilian cases, and (4) military cases.

Omdurman:

– (25) injuries, including (22) civilian cases, and (3) military cases.

Regions:

– (55) injuries, including (24) civilian cases, and (31) military cases.

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April 17, 2023

Sudan: Coordinators of the Resistance Committees of the state of Khartoum – Important statement for the Sudanese people (16.04.2023)

We are not neutral, because we are in a peaceful battle since the era of the ousted Al-Bashir until now against the militarization of the country and the control of guns on the streets. We started with our peacefulness and we will continue with it to achieve our goals against all parties to the war now taking place in the streets of the country. Al-Burhan and Hemeti are enemies of the revolution and the revolutionaries. On its way, we will win, because we are against war and against any outcome that results from it. Both belligerents do not care about the security and safety of our people, so we call on them not to settle their scores among the innocent citizens.

– We ask the revolutionaries in the neighborhoods to arrange ranks in the current situation, and to prepare to provide the basic requirements of our people in their areas according to the current conditions.

We ask the resistance committees in each neighborhood to follow as they see fit:

Monitoring the situation on the ground and reporting what is happening in and around each neighborhood periodically to prevent rumors, and convey the facts as they are, in order to be a reliable source for our people.

Formation of medical rooms for possible injuries and in anticipation of any emergency.

Monitoring the conditions of food supplies in the neighborhood, especially with the possibility of prolonging the current war, and examining the conditions of our people in these difficult circumstances.

Monitoring the security situation in the neighborhood and ensuring that children and the elderly are kept away from the areas of clashes.

Raising the slogan #لا_للحرب and not responding to any calls for armament because it will lead us to civil war.

The only loser from the war is the people, so let’s unite to overcome it.

We call on civil and humanitarian society organizations, Red Crescent and Red Cross organizations, Doctors Without Borders, and the Preliminary Committee of the Sudan Doctors Syndicate to activate their role in aiding the wounded and injured, transferring them to safe places, and providing aids for the Sudanese people to overcome this ordeal.

– Finally, we have mercy on all the innocent citizens who fell dead, and we consider them martyrs with God Almighty, and we wish a speedy recovery for the injured and the safe return of the missing.

May God protect our people, the military is in the barracks and the Janjaweed are dissolving.

Coordinators of the resistance committees of the state of Khartoum

April 16, 2023

▪️The signatories:

Haj Youssef Neighborhoods Committees Gathering

Marine Biology Committees

Coordinated by East Nile South

– Coordination of the Greater Omdurman Resistance Committees

– Coordination of the resistance committees of the city of Khartoum

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Burkina Faso: Ministere de l’Administration Territoriale de la Decentralisation et de la Securite – Region du Nord – Gouvernorat de Ouahigouya – Communique Administratif (16.04.2023)

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Sudan: Sudanese Congress Party – Statement No. 2 (16.04.2023)

Statement No. (2) on the security situation following the outbreak of bloody clashes between the Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces

We renew the call for an immediate cessation of hostilities and a return to dialogue.

We call on both parties to the conflict to open safe passages for civilians.

our steadfast people;

The machine of killing and destruction continues to kill the daughters and sons of our people and shed Sudanese blood since yesterday morning, Saturday, October 15, 2023 AD, after the remnants of the defunct regime kindled the flames of discord and discord between the armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces, as the areas of clashes expanded to include most of the cities of Sudan, more than sixty civilian martyrs and more than six hundred wounded according to preliminary statistics, this is from the non-military on both sides, and we expect that these numbers will far exceed what has been announced due to the state of complete paralysis in which the country is living and the difficulty of movement and careful monitoring.

We in the Sudanese Congress Party have mercy on the souls of the martyrs and send prayers for recovery to the injured civilians and military, and we repeat our call to the leaders of the People’s Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces to cease fire immediately, act as the voice of wisdom and reason, and give room for mediation efforts and resort to negotiation to resolve the existing conflict peacefully, the Sudanese blood that is bleeding from the civilians and the military is all precious, and the unity of the homeland and its soil is in the wind, and everyone loses in this conflict except for the remnants of the defunct regime, and we also call for the opening of safe corridors to deliver the injured and sick to hospitals and the passage of ambulances, and facilitating medical supply operations, and to the evacuation of many civilians stranded in various locations where fighting is raging, including patients, students, school students, female employees, and male and female employees, we also urge female and male citizens to move away from the areas of clashes, stay in their homes, and not risk leaving unless absolutely necessary.

We appeal to international institutions, human rights organizations and brotherly and friendly countries to actively contribute to stopping the fighting in Sudan and to work to push the two sides to resort to peaceful solutions, and to provide the required logistical support to the Sudanese people in these exceptional circumstances.

We believe that the resumption of the political process, leading to the signing of the final political agreement, would defuse the crisis, quell the fire of sedition, spare the blood of our people, and fulfill their aspirations for the establishment of a civil authority that would resume the path of civil democratic transformation.

Our people lived free and victorious

Media secretariat

April 16, 2023 AD

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Opinion: Kagabo MP will find it out the hard way…

Bukoto South Member of Parliament, Dr. Twaha Kagabo has reportedly ditched National Unity Platform (NUP) and joined MK Movement, a pressure group spearheaded by First Son, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba. On Friday, Kagabo, was spotted with Muhoozi and other MK Movement leaders in Kasambya constituency during a fundraising campaign for women and youth development groups, fuelling reports that he has joined the Muhoozi group” (Samuel Muhimba – ‘MP Kagabo ’dumps’ NUP for MK Movement’ 15.04.2023, Nile Post).

The Member of Parliament, Dr. Twaha Kagabo has gotten of the hook before. He insinuated that he was bribed and had to return 40 million shillings. Later in the year and after the scandal was unleashed. The MP was pardoned by the Parliament and the case has since been forgotten. He was supposed to be disciplined by the party, National Unity Platform (NUP) but I don’t know what happened to that. This was all happening in 2022 and now we are already in April 2023.

Kagabo MP has now distanced himself from the Opposition. That’s isn’t really newsworthy. That’s something he has done already and proven himself to be one of “them”. He could just switch to National Resistance Movement (NRM). However, he does the “populist” move and joins the MK (Army) Movement instead.

It isn’t shocking or revealing. The character has already been proven. He could already be bought and his principals was for sale. If it wasn’t, he wouldn’t have grabbed the 40 million shillings in 2022 and later cried out loud to save face. He knew he was in the wrong and he still did the dance. Blamed the speaker and whoever who bought him. However, not taking to account that he accepted the bribe and was fine eating the easy money.

I am surprised that he waited this long. Maybe the MK Movement sweetened the deal or promised him something on the back-end. Since he was already turning to the other side a long time ago. He made the decision by himself and wanted to be greedy. The MP accepted the “kickbacks” and the envelopes to do a deed for the ruling regime. Therefore, there was no difference between him and the NRM.

Kagabo MP can act righteous and act like he has done the right thing. It is maybe the right thing for him. To be a representative and be a man who is an underling to the First Son. Maybe he prefers to be token soldier and a “yes-man”. Instead of a man on the barricades and fighting the brutal dictatorship. It is easier to side with the son of the dictator, than to stand-up and fight them. He gets off easy right now.

The burdens and the pressure is off him. His now “one of them” and it gives him privileges. That he will get in plenty. Nevertheless, his honour and pride is sold. There is no integrity or justification. Other than he wants to get a fat bank-account and be a subject of a new master. That’s all there is and it will be hard to sell his candidacy in the next election. As he left the fold and decided to be associated with the regime.

That’s who Kagabo MP is and who he wants be… he wants to be one of them and he has succeeded. The cost and the price to do so will be down the line. Because, why should the voters or the constituency trust him? They have seen how he behaves and how acts. His a man who is willing to be bought and be made a fool off. That’s who he is and he got live with it. Peace.

National Unity Platform (NUP): Statement on Amended Constitution (16.04.2023)

Sudan: Sudan Central Doctors Committee – A preliminary inventory of the events of April 15th (16.04.2023)

Sudanese men and women woke up on the morning of April 15, 2023, to the tragedy of clashes between the People’s Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces. These clashes resulted in a large number of deaths and moderate and critical injuries.

We call for the predominance of the voice of reason and an immediate cessation of absurd fire, which claimed the lives of innocent, unarmed civilians, and safe passages must be opened to evacuate the detainees, the stranded, and the injured to provide them with first aid.

The total number of dead and injured who were counted from hospitals and health facilities:

– The total number of civilian deaths was (56).

Dozens of deaths among the military (some of them were treated in regular hospitals, and some of them are outside our scope.

– The total number of injuries reached (595), including military injuries, dozens of whom were in critical condition.

Disclaimer:

– Some cases of military injuries and deaths have been transferred to regular hospitals, and some are beyond our scope.

– There are injuries and deaths among civilians who were unable to reach hospitals and health facilities due to the difficulty of movement and the regular forces’ interception of ambulances and paramedics.

Khartoum:

– (25) deaths, including (17) civilians and (8) military personnel.

– Injuries (302) cases.

Marine:

– The dead (8) cases, including (7) civilians and (1) military

– Injuries (86) cases.

Omdurman:

– (11) deaths, including (7) civilians and (4) military personnel

– Injuries (42) cases.

Territories:

– The dead (25) cases, including both civilians and military personnel

– Injuries (165) cases.

April 16, 2023