Arrest and abductions in Tabit and Nyala, Darfur

The Sudanese security service arrested a student at the market in Tabit, North Darfur. Militiamen abducted a shop owner from the market in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, on Wednesday.

A relative told this station from Tabit that security agents, driving a Land Cruiser, arrived in the village from El Fasher on Friday. They apprehended student Abdel Hamid Abdallah, a graduate of the Nile University, and took him to their office in El Fasher.

The relative does not know the reason for Abdallah's arrest. He said he hopes that student organisations and human rights organisation will intervene.

In Nyala, five militia members in a Land Cruiser raided the shop of Ahmed Adam in the southern market of the city on Wednesday afternoon.

Ahmed and another person in the shop were put inside the vehicle and driven to an unknown destination. A relative of the merchant informed Radio Dabanga about the incident.

Last week, gunmen kidnapped and robbed four staff members of the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (Unamid) in Nyala. But the victims were released a few hours later.