{"id":170399,"date":"2022-05-27T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/violence-in-north-and-west-darfur\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T08:09:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T08:09:46","slug":"violence-in-north-and-west-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/violence-in-north-and-west-darfur","title":{"rendered":"Violence in North and West Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"

North and West Darfur witnessed various violent incidents in the past week. In North Darfur a police assistant was attacked whilst a policeman threatened hospital staff and had to be disarmed by visitors. In West Darfur’s Kereinik, a man was killed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Police assistant Abdelrahman Idris, member of the North Darfur anti-smuggling forces in the state’s capital El Fasher, was wounded in an attack by unknown gunmen on Tuesday evening. He was shot in his back and hand.<\/p>\n

Listeners told Radio Dabanga from El Fasher that the gunmen looted the policeman's vehicle after shooting him. The perpetrators were tracked down by a joint force.<\/p>\n

Policeman threatens hospital staff<\/strong><\/p>\n

In North Darfur’s Saraf Omra Hospital, a policeman pointed his Kalashnikov at the accounting staff on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Eyewitnesses told Radio Dabanga that visitors in the hospital managed to disarm him and took the weapon from his hand.<\/p>\n

They explained that the events developed over a conflict over the payment of the transaction fees on Tuesday, and he returned the following day to conduct the transaction by force of arms.<\/p>\n

On the road between Saraf Omra and Butinei, also in North Darfur, three armed men robbed Salaheldin Adam Salem of his rickshaw at gunpoint.<\/p>\n

Salem told Radio Dabanga that his relatives formed a search posse which followed the perpetrators and was able to recover the rickshaw. The perpetrators fled.<\/p>\n

West Darfur murder<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ibrahim Yousef (42) was killed in Kereinik, West Darfur, on Monday evening. People from the area told Radio Dabanga that four armed men on horses shot Yousef, who died instantly.<\/p>\n

West Darfur has been witnessing a continuation of insecurity for a long time.<\/p>\n

The governor of West Darfur, Khamis Abdallah Abakar said in a press statement in the state capital El Geneina on Tuesday that the widespread attacks on Kereinik in the end of last year and early this year have a political and economic dimension, not a tribal one.<\/p>\n

According to Abakar, a “third party is fuelling the fighting in the state” as he explained that there has been no change in West Darfur since the fall of Omar Al Bashir.<\/p>\n

Kereinik formed the stage of violent attacks<\/a> at the end of last month, which led to the death of more than 200 people<\/a> and the injury of at least 136 others. More than one hundred thousand were displaced <\/a>as a result of the violence and the Higher Committee to Stop the Massacres in West Darfur called the attacks a ‘genocide’.<\/p>\n

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