{"id":186214,"date":"2014-01-02T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/cases-of-highway-robbery-across-darfur\/"},"modified":"2014-01-02T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T22:41:00","slug":"cases-of-highway-robbery-across-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/cases-of-highway-robbery-across-darfur","title":{"rendered":"Cases of highway robbery across Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday and Wednesday six lorries were hijacked, two lorries plundered, and a pick-up belonging to Zain Telecom was stolen. The incidents occurred in three Darfur states.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary General of the East Darfur State government reported to Radio Dabanga that an \u201cunidentified armed group\u201d intercepted six lorries near the area of Magta in Sheiria locality in East Darfur. The commercial vehicles, belonging to the Abarsi company, came from Khartoum and were on their way to Nyala in South Darfur. The armed group took the lorries and headed northwards.<\/p>\n<p>In Central Darfur on Wednesday, gunmen plundered two lorries en route from Omdurman to El Geneina in West Darfur. One of the robbed passengers told Radio Dabanga that government-backed militiamen on motorcycles and others on horses and camels opened fire on the two lorries in the area of Lafat Kasara, near Tor in Central Darfur. They robbed the passengers of SDG15,717 ($2,735) and more than 40 mobile phones in addition to their belongings and goods.<\/p>\n<p>Gunmen in Shattai locality in South Darfur stole a double-cab pickup on Wednesday, belonging to Zain Telecom, as well as the belongings and mobile phones of two of the company\u2019s engineers.<\/p>\n<p><em>File photo by Albert Gonz\u00e1lez Farran \/ Unamid<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Related:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiodabanga.org\/node\/63104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Highway robberies curtail road transport to Darfur<\/a> (31 December 2013)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiodabanga.org\/node\/61970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gunmen hijack lorry, rob passengers in South Darfur<\/a>&nbsp;(17 December 2013)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiodabanga.org\/node\/61542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Militiamen hold-up lorry in North Darfur<\/a>&nbsp;(12 December 2013)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiodabanga.org\/node\/61172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lorry hijacked, driver abducted in East Darfur<\/a>&nbsp;(8 December 2013)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><!--break--><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sws_supernormalaction\"><button on=\"tap:superwebshare-lightbox\" class=\"superwebshare_normal_button1 superwebshare-button-large superwebshare-button-square superwebshare_prompt superwebshare_button_svg\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color: #d52631;\" ><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"superwebshare-svg\"  fill=\"currentColor\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 1000\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"0\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M789.86,323.67c91.79,0,164.25-72.46,164.25-164.25S881.64,0,789.86,0S625.6,72.46,625.6,164.25c0,4.83,0,14.49,0,24.15L306.76,371.98c-24.15-24.15-57.97-33.82-96.62-33.82c-91.79,0-164.25,72.46-164.25,164.25s72.46,164.25,164.25,164.25c38.65,0,72.46-14.49,96.62-33.82L625.6,821.26c0,9.66,0,14.49,0,19.32c0,86.96,72.46,159.42,159.42,159.42s159.42-72.46,159.42-159.42s-67.63-159.42-154.59-159.42c-33.82,0-67.63,9.66-96.62,33.82L374.4,526.57c0-9.66,0-19.32,0-24.15s0-14.49,0-24.15l318.84-188.41C717.39,314.01,751.21,323.67,789.86,323.67z\" \/><\/svg><span>Share article<\/span><\/button><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday and Wednesday six lorries were hijacked, two lorries plundered, and a pick-up belonging to Zain Telecom was stolen. The incidents occurred in three Darfur states. The Secretary General of the East Darfur State government reported to Radio Dabanga that an \u201cunidentified armed group\u201d intercepted six lorries near the area of Magta in Sheiria locality in East Darfur. The commercial vehicles, belonging to the Abarsi company, came from Khartoum and were on their way to Nyala in South Darfur. The armed group took the lorries and headed northwards. In Central Darfur on Wednesday, gunmen plundered two lorries en route from Omdurman to El Geneina in West Darfur. One of the robbed passengers told Radio Dabanga that government-backed militiamen on motorcycles and others on horses and camels opened fire on the two lorries in the area of Lafat Kasara, near Tor in Central Darfur. They robbed the passengers of SDG15,717 ($2,735) and more than 40 mobile phones in addition to their belongings and goods. Gunmen in Shattai locality in South Darfur stole a double-cab pickup on Wednesday, belonging to Zain Telecom, as well as the belongings and mobile phones of two of the company\u2019s engineers. File photo by Albert Gonz\u00e1lez Farran \/ Unamid Related:Highway robberies curtail road transport to Darfur (31 December 2013)Gunmen hijack lorry, rob passengers in South Darfur\u00a0(17 December 2013)Militiamen hold-up lorry in North Darfur\u00a0(12 December 2013)Lorry hijacked, driver abducted in East Darfur\u00a0(8 December 2013)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cases of highway robbery across Darfur - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/cases-of-highway-robbery-across-darfur\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cases of highway robbery across Darfur - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Tuesday and Wednesday six lorries were hijacked, two lorries plundered, and a pick-up belonging to Zain Telecom was stolen. 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