Sudan: Khartoum 3 Resistance Committees – The Initiative of The Revolutionary Front to Solve the Sudanese Crisis… Sudan first (15.04.2022)

Our people resisting the coup:

We followed the Revolutionary Front’s launching of what it called an initiative (the initiative of the Revolutionary Front to solve the Sudanese crisis… Sudan first).

This description of the Revolutionary Front, in our opinion, is inaccurate and incorrect, and it is a complete transgression and disregards what happened, which is the coup of October 25, 2021, which resulted from an alliance between the coup authorities, led by the head of the Coup Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and he made a two-and-a-half-year political deal. It concluded with the restoration of the deposed regime, the ousted Islamic movement, and the dissolved National Congress Party, as well as the revocation of the provisions and articles of the law aimed at dismantling the regime of June 30, 1989, and recovering public funds, and returned all looted assets to them.

The initiative of the Revolutionary Front, which we reviewed some of its articles, called for allocating 100 seats in the Legislative Council to resistance committees, with 15 representatives from the state of Khartoum and five representatives from each state, and each party receiving one seat, the Sudanese Professionals Association receiving two seats, and armed movements receiving 25%. It is merely a bargaining position, rather than a crisis-resolution initiative, as the Revolutionary Front has described it. This is an example of the mentality and thinking of the leaders of the armed movements on the issues of the democratic transition and the overthrow of the revolution, bearing in mind that the pre-coup constitutional document had established a framework that granted the Revolutionary Front and its armed movements a good political status. Nonetheless, it backed the coup against the transitional government and the revolution, as well as taking positions in favor of the coup authorities and upholding its stances, making it an obvious and clear participant in the coup.

Our brave people:

The Revolutionary Front’s position and presence in the coup authority, as well as its retention of all the privileges of the Juba Peace Agreement, which was included in the 2019 constitutional document in November 2020, do not qualify it to launch a political initiative that does not include the conditions and demands of the Sudanese people who reject the coup, because it is a partner in the current government and its forces have been involved in arresting, killing, and running over peaceful revolutionaries for last six months.

This initiative is rejected by us because it does not reflect the aspirations of the Sudanese people who reject the coup, but rather is a negotiating position and an attempt by the Revolutionary Front to remain relevant because they know the coup’s downfall is imminent, which will necessitate reconsidering the Juba Peace Agreement, which did not benefit the sons and daughters of our great people in Darfur, eastern, northern, or central Sudan. However, the signatories of this agreement benefited politically and socially the benefit of a small group of the affiliates of their movements.

Sudan: Khartoum State Resistance Committees Coordination – Joint press statement (13.04.2022)

In response to the invitation made, a number of Khartoum State Resistance Committees’ coordination with the offices of the US Congress held a session to discuss the political current and determine the role of the international community in supporting the democratic transition.

After welcoming the audience, the resistance committees reviewed the various contexts in eastern Sudan, Darfur and Khartoum, and clarified its position rejecting the military coup, with an emphasis on continuing the movement and peaceful resistance to overthrow the coup.

The meeting also discussed the slogan of the three nos (no negotiation, no partnership, no legitimacy) and the representatives explained the reasons for the loss of confidence in the putschists and the leaders of the military establishment and their permanent violation of covenants and covenants, and that the Sudanese people call for a military institution that respects its mandate limited to protecting the constitution and borders, and that the entire authority is handed over to civilians.

The meeting stressed the importance of transitional justice and activating the principle of accountability for crimes and the impunity in the massacres committed in various parts of Sudan by the Military Council, the attendees stressed that any (an initiative proposed to resolve the Sudanese crisis, must reflect the position of the Sudanese people represented by the three no’s), and not to return to partnership with the military in addition to the visions presented in the written charters of the resistance committees.

Accordingly, we, in the resistance committees, affirm that our battle is still ongoing, and that we will not postpone this battle. “We were destined to be the generation that has the responsibility to end military coups once and for all.”

The signatories:

1/ Coordination of the resistance committees of Hajj Youssef

2/ Marine Biology Committees

3/ Coordination of Umbadah neighborhood committees

4/ Gathering of the neighbourhood committees of Haj Youssef

5 / Central Resistance Committees Dar es Salaam – Embeda

6/ Omdurman South Coordination

7 / Coordination of the forty and the elephant and the supplier and the Ardah

8/ East of the Nile South

9/ Coordination of the resistance committees of the city of Khartoum

Sudan: The Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) – Statement on the Anniversary of the Fall of the Tyrant on April 11, 2019 (12.04.2022)

Our victorious people;

On the eleventh of April, 2019 AD, the hordes of revolutionaries chanted victory ululated and chants of eternal liberation rose from the throats of the brave revolutionaries, after the collapse of the dictatorial Islamic Front regime with all its arrogance and false arrogance, and we will continue to persevere in performing the imposition of the hour and fulfilling the decisive condition for defeating the coup by forming a unified leadership for the broad resistance front from all the forces of revolution and change, with unified field and media coordination.

Which drags our country day after day into the abyss of imminent collapse, and the establishment of a complete civil authority to complete the process of civil democratic transformation, so none of us returns from the middle of the road.

Long live our people free and victorious

Media of the Forces of Freedom and Change

April 12, 2022 AD

Sudan: Sudanese Professionals Association – Statement (11.04.2022)

The power of the people is coming

The will of the people prevails

The Sudanese arena is witnessing these days initiatives from the putschists and their allies in what they call the national interest. We would like to emphasize that the national interest is what the masses of our people have agreed upon with their glorious chant. The revolutionaries and the murderers, this revolution is going and shining with its sons and daughters, and its flame will remain free and will not be extinguished by the hard work, diligence and valour that the revolutionaries control in all the cities, villages and rural areas of Sudan.

With this firm determination and a mighty will determined to triumph and make a new history, let us prepare to invite the revolutionaries. And the revolutionaries for the steadfastness million, the atheist of April, which is a lofty stairway towards taking full civil authority through building a broad revolutionary alliance for modern forces that believe in complete change for the benefit of our people and not for personal and partisan interests and positions on the blood of the martyrs, we encourage the resistance committees. And its great role in building its revolutionary pacts and its relentless endeavour to unify them in a comprehensive pact for the Sudanese people, which will be the presenters of the stage and the starting point.

We invite the masses of the Sudanese people, professionals and professionals from their workplaces, female workers, wage workers, workers and craftsmen, discussing the wall of silence, weavers of the threads of the sun. The electrification of darkness for the active participation in the glorious eleventh of April, believing that our path to a civil state is inevitably coming to build a better future in which we respect our diversity and pluralism in which we judge the coming democracy through our revolutionary action to build a new history based on freedom, democracy, justice and equality.

Long live the resistance..and the revolution was free and victorious.

April 11, 2022 AD

Sudan: The Unified Office of Sudan Doctors – Urgent (06.04.2022)

The forces of the military coup have stormed Al-Jawdah Hospital earlier today and fired tear gas inside the clinical areas! We condemn this act that terrified patients and medical staff and has led to a number of them suffocating.

This blatant infringement by the coup authority on the hospital is a continuation of a series of attacks on health facilities since the 25th October coup d’etat and is a clear violation of the rights of patients and injured.

The Unified Office of Doctors assures that such actions will not discourage our people’s determination to win and will not prevent medical personnel from carrying out their duties in treating the sick, wounded, and injured.

The office also affirms that it will make every effort to expose the violations committed by the coup forces and that it will carry on organizing the doctors’ movement so as to continue their resistance to the brutal dictatorial military regime until it’s brought to an end and a civil democratic Sudan is established, where respect for human rights prevails.

The Unified Office of Doctors appeals to all doctors to be present in field clinics and cover hospitals’ staff needs in order to treat the wounded and injured.

April 6th 2022

» Sudan Doctors Union

» Central Committee of Sudan Doctors

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Sudan: Sudanese Congress Party – Statement (31.03.2022)

Our brave people;

In an escalating continuation of the peaceful mass movement resisting the fateful coup of the twenty-fifth of October 2021 AD, roaring processions took place on Thursday, March 31, 2022 AD in the capital and the regions, as usual, the brutal coup authorities faced it with excessive repression through tear gas bombs, live bullets, and arrests that affected even doctors and health personnel while performing their professional duty in some hospitals after storming them.

Dozens of honorable female revolutionaries were injured. We send invitations to them to heal and recover.

On the other hand, as a result of the coup authority’s failure to fulfill its duty to provide security, the unfortunate violent incidents took place in the Kassala Rural Locality on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 AD, a number of dead and wounded, as a result of which many houses were burned, and many families were displaced.

Our victorious people;

We in the Sudanese Congress Party see that the coup authority is pushing the country into the abyss at an accelerating pace, in light of the growing manifestations of security chaos, economic collapse and the overwhelming popular rejection throughout our steadfast land, which are the seeds of its annihilation that it has carried in its hollow since the dawn of the coup, in addition to the completion of the pillars of the process of apostasy from the gains of the glorious December revolution, by returning the members of the defunct rescue regime who were separated by the order of the Empowerment Removal Committee – dissolved by the coup order – to the joints of the state, and retracting its decisions related to the recovery of public funds, after the members of the dissolved committee were arbitrarily arrested according to malicious reports.

We in the Sudanese Congress Party renew our call to all the revolutionary forces to expedite the coordination of their efforts to resist the coup across a broad front with a united leadership. Considering that this is the decisive condition for the overthrow of this criminal revolutionary authority and the restoration of the path of civil democratic transformation under a full civilian leadership.

Long live our people free and victorious

March 31, 2022 AD

Sudan: Forces of Freedom and Change – Executive Bureau – Statement on the report of the Special Representative of the Secretary General of United Nations to the Security Council (29.03.2022)

The Executive Bureau of the Forces of Freedom and Change discussed in its regular meeting today, Tuesday, March 29, 2021, the report of the Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the UNITAMS, which he submitted to the Security Council on March 28, 2022.

The meeting concluded the following:-

1- We commend the clear and frank position of the UN-SRSG about the 25 October coup and the necessity of restoring the democratic civilian rule and the explicit condemnation of the human rights violations, especially murder, rape, arrests and other violations.

2- We express our support once again to the political process initiated by the UN mission with the participation of the African Union.

3- The parties of the political process should be as explained in the vision of the FFC, regarding the political process which was handed over to the UN mission during the consultation phase and issued for the public.

4- Establishing a democratic civil authority, and agreed upon constitutional declaration that defines the transitional period and transitional’s tasks, and the requirements of the general election precess in a way that ensures its integrity and wide participation.

5- We welcome what was mentioned in the report about measures to create a conducive environment, especially the abolition of the state of emergency, the release of detainees, and the cessation of violence against peaceful protestors.

6- It is not possible to talk about a political process that achieves the democratic civil rule, without preparing the appropriate environment and realising the confidence-building measures, foremost of which is the release of all detainees, the lifting of the state of emergency and the cessation of violence against the mass movement.

Forces of Freedom and Change – Executive Bureau

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Sudan: Consensus emerging on many issues, UN’s Sudan envoy tells Security Council (29.03.2022)

The African country has had no functioning government in place since the military coup d’état of 25 October 2021.

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 29, 2022 – The United Nations envoy for Sudan told the Security Council today that consensus has emerged on many issues towards establishing a functional government, warning that Khartoum could lose out on billions of external aid without such an administration.

“Unless the current trajectory is corrected, Sudan will head towards economic and security collapse as well as significant humanitarian suffering,” Volker Perthes, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Sudan, warned.

Political vacuum

The African country has had no functioning government in place since the military coup d’état of 25 October 2021.

Perthes, also the head of the UN’s transitional Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), said the UN-led broad consultations on a political process – involving more than 800 participants from all parts of the country – have found “visible” consensus on many issues, including on the need to end the violence, establish a technocratic Government and an oversight body, and adopt critical legislation.

There was also wide-reaching agreement on the need to reconsider the role, size and membership of the Sovereignty Council, which was to have functioned as the collective head of state for a 39-month transitional period, scheduled to end in November 2022.

Points of agreement

The consultations also found common ground on a minimum of 40 per cent representation of women in transitional institutions, and on mechanisms to advance women’s rights.

Moreover, an overarching consensus emerged around the need for a single unified professional army, for the establishment of judicial entities, for the conditions for credible elections and for an inclusive constitutional process.

Going forward, he told the Security Council, the UN, the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) will jointly lead efforts to support Sudan’s political process, drawing on their respective strengths.  The intention is to facilitate an inclusive, Sudan-owned and Sudan-led political process.

New phase of talks

An intensive phase of talks is expected to start in the next couple of weeks with a view to a return to constitutional order and an empowered civilian-led government to steer Sudan through the transitional period.

“Time is not on Sudan’s side”, he warned, adding that Sudan could miss out on billions of external support, as disbursements from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other major donors have been paused, and will continue that way as long as no functional government is in place.

Sudan: Central Committee of Sudan Doctors – Report on the Injuries and Deaths due to Excessive Use of Cartridge Weapon against Civilians’s Protesters since the 25th October 2021 coup till the 21st March 2022 (25.03.2022)

4 Martyrs and 327 injured, victims of the new deadly weapon: The Cartridge since the day of the of the Coup, up to this day, the peaceful protesters have been subjected to various types of violence, with the intention to kill. Those violent practices ranged from killing with live bullets, beatings with rifle butts, the use of car run-down over the bodies and the direct targeting of the protesters with tear gas and sound bombs.

Recently, we have been working on series of reports under the tag of:

(The New Killer)

We have noticed that (Cartridge Weapon) is being extensively used in the marches of February and March causing the deaths of a number of protesters and resulting in hundreds of sustained injuries of varying degrees some of which were serious.

Surgery for such injuries is complicated due to the difficulty of removing the scattered fragments that settle next to some vital organs.

The Coup forces do not hesitate to use any lethal force, as they are confident of the immunity they have against punishment.

Moreover, there is a distinct administrative slackness from the government of the generals. Police and the Prosecution are not playing their role in investigating these violations to human rights. Up to this moment, no investigation reports of violence or violations were submitted to the authorities.

In the year 2019, the Cartridge Weapon was used in killing Martyr Dr.Babiker Abdel Hamid. That was the first time that we observed the use of this deadly weapon.

Since the October 25th Coup, the Cartridge Killer Weapon has been extensively used in suppressing the protests marches.

Up to this day we have documented (4) deaths and (327) cases of injury by this deadly killer, with confirmed some other mild injuries which fall outside the scope of our inventory, as they are treated by field teams.

– in the 21st of March anti-coup protests, we monitored 101 cases of Cartridge injury, including a case of serious eye injury, during the processions of the city of Wad Madani in the Gezira State, that ultimately led to the loss of the eye.

– Also serious injuries to the head, neck, chest, abdomen and thigh, some of which required surgical intervention, and some of the injured are still hospitalized.

-In conjunction with imposing sanctions by US on the Central Reserve Police -with its combat missions- whose members, with the participation of the police and other military forces, committed murders with this weapon.

We issue these reports, documented by numbers, to demonstrate the criminal attitude of these forces and their other partner forces.

Here are some details of the deaths and injuries resulting from the use of the Cartridge Wbeapon:

The total number of deaths are (4):

1. Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Nakhli,17 years old, killed by scattered gunshots causing wounds to neck and chest, on the February 14th anti-coup protests. He died on the same day.

– The site of the

injury: Khartoum.

2. Muhtadi Haider Othman, (26) years old, killed with scattered gunshot wounds to the pelvis and thigh, Muhtadi was among the injured of February 14 anti-coup protests, and his soul rose on February 26, 2022.

-The site of the injury: Omdurman.

3. Mohab Adel Qassem Al-Sayed, (14) years old, shot in the abdomen and chest. One of the injured of the February 28 anti-coup protests, and his soul rose on the same day.

-The site of the injury: Bahri.

4. Ahmed Maqam Al-Din, (13) years old, shot in head, injured in March 17 anti-coup protests and his soul rose on March 20.

-The site of the injury: Omdurman.

The total number of injuries reached (327):

-On 21/3/2022: 101 gunshot wounds

-On 17/3/2022: 70 gunshot wounds

-On 15/3/2022: 1 cartridge hit

-On 14/3/2022: 35 cartridge hits

-On 10/3/2022: 21 cartridge cases were hit

-On 08/3/2022: 51 shotgun injuries

-On 03/3/2022: 1 cartridge hit

-On 28/2/2022: 25 gunshot wounds

-On 24/2/2022: 1 cartridge hit

-On 22/2/2022: 2 cartridge cases were hit

-On 02/2/2022: 1 cartridge hit

-On 14/2/2022: 14 cartridge cases were hit

-On 07/2/2022: 4 gunshot wounds

CCSD’s Media Office

March 25, 2022

Sudan: World Food Programme – Worsening Food Crisis Looming in Sudan Amid Economic Downturn, Displacement, and Ruined Crops (23.03.2022)

The situation looks grim for millions as the conflict in Ukraine is causing further spikes in food costs.

KHARTOUM, Sudan, March 23, 2022 – The combined effects of conflict, economic crisis, and poor harvests are significantly affecting people’s access to food and will likely double the number of people facing acute hunger in Sudan to more than 18 million people by September 2022, warns the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP).

“There are already worrying signs that access, affordability, and the availability of food is shrinking for most people in Sudan, which is pushing more people deeper into poverty and hunger,” said Eddie Rowe, WFP Representative and Country Director in Sudan.

In recent months, there has been a surge in the numbers of people displaced due to conflict in parts of Darfur and the Kordofan region. This insecurity has eroded livelihoods, damaged farms, and triggered widespread unemployment.

The depreciation of the Sudanese Pound (SDG) in addition to rising food and transportation costs are making it harder for families to put food on the table. A lack of access to hard currencies is likely to result in the SDG further depreciating.

TheCrop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) report by FAO and WFP indicates that the domestic cereal production from the 2021/22 agricultural season is expected to produce 5.1 million metric tons. This will only cover the needs of less than two thirds of the population, leaving many reliant on humanitarian food assistance and dependant on imports of essential grains at prices beyond the reach of most people.

“Rising food prices and scarcity of essential agricultural inputs such as fertilizers and seeds mean that farmers have no other option than to abandon food production if they do not receive immediate support. This will likely have grave consequences not only for their food security but also on food availability in Sudan and may ultimately lead to more conflict and displacement,” said Babagana Ahmadu, FAO Representative in Sudan.

The situation looks grim for millions as the conflict in Ukraine is causing further spikes in food costs, as Sudan is dependent on wheat imports from the Black Sea region. Interruption to the flow of grain into Sudan will increase prices and make it more difficult to import wheat. Currently, local prices of wheat are at over US$ 550 per ton – an increase of 180 percent compared to the same period in 2021.

“The ripple effects created by the bullets and bombs landing in Ukraine will be felt far and wide, including here in Sudan, as families are set to suffer even further with basic meals becoming a luxury for millions. But at the same time, WFP finds itself in the awful position of not having enough resources to meet the ever growing needs,” added Mr Rowe.

In 2021, WFP was a lifeline for nearly 9 million people in Sudan who suffered through the turmoil of political unrest and economic instability. On top of life-saving food assistance, cash and livelihood support for families helped them not only survive, but also thrive. But this year, WFP food stocks in Sudan are running dangerously low and without new funding they will begin running out by May. A funding crunch, led by a US$270 million shortfall, has already forced WFP to prioritize the most vulnerable of the vulnerable people, meaning others in need go without, and further cuts may be necessary if WFP does not receive new funds immediately.

In 2021, FAO reached nearly 1.5 million vulnerable people in Sudan with life-saving livelihoods assistance to enhance the resilience of their agriculture-based livelihoods. This year, FAO requires USD 51.4 million to support 2 million vulnerable farming and pastoral households to produce their own food, keep their livestock alive and productive, and strengthen their resilience. Urgent support is required to provide essential agriculture inputs to vulnerable farming households before the main agriculture season starts in June, so that they can produce enough food and become self-reliant.