{"id":20073415,"date":"2024-02-21T13:36:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T12:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20073415"},"modified":"2024-02-21T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T12:37:17","slug":"%e2%99%a6-sudan-this-weeks-news-in-brief-%e2%99%a6-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/%e2%99%a6-sudan-this-weeks-news-in-brief-%e2%99%a6-28","title":{"rendered":"\u2666 Sudan: This week\u2019s news in brief \u2666"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A compact digest of the past week\u2019s most-read highlights, from the heart of Sudan. Subscribe<\/a> to receive this digest weekly in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sudanese actor now selling pastries in Addis Ababa<\/a>
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13\/02\/2024 – ADDIS ABABA. Sudanese comedian Warrag Omar, who arrived in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa after fleeing his home in Khartoum, refused to sit idle and successfully began selling pastries in the city. \u201cWhen we discovered that we were facing a fait accompli, that the war would continue for a long time, I thought about ways of [securing a] livelihood, because we were almost out of money,\u201d he told Radio Dabanga in an interview.
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Warrag Omar fled\u00a0Khartoum last year when \u201cthe bullets at the beginning of this absurd war had punctured all the windows of the neighbourhood\u201d. Via Merowe in Northern State, he\u00a0reached Addis Ababa.\u00a0Here,\u00a0the \u201cshop is not only tea and pastries. It has become an extensive meeting place for Sudanese refugees here in the city,\u201d he said, and “many Ethiopian artists join us here”.\u00a0With his livelihood \u201ckind of secured\u201d, Warrag Omar has set up a charity fund to help out other Sudanese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sudanese refugees face dire hardship in South Sudan camps<\/a>
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18\/02\/2024 – GOROM CAMP, JUBA. Sudanese refugees in the Gorom camp, west of Juba in South Sudan, suffer from deteriorating conditions and difficulties in the camp. An activist told Dabanga on Friday that the camp lacks even the most basic of services. She said that the people in the camp are struggling to obtain food. \u201cAid organisations spend $8 per month per person, but as everything is very expensive here, this is only enough for one meal a day.\u201d
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Those with chronic health conditions suffer severely as health services are almost non-existent. The medical centre at the camp is meant to serve 2,000 people, while the camp now houses more than 18,000 refugees. According to the Displacement Tracking Matrix of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 542,199 people had fled to South Sudan during the war by February 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sudanese killed and raped in Ethiopian refugee camps<\/a>
20\/02\/2024 – AMHARA. Two Sudanese people were killed and six raped in Kumer refugee camp in Ethiopia recently, while others were robbed and kidnapped. Hundreds of refugees have reportedly been struggling to get food, water, and shelter.
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Food kitchens halt in Khartoum North as people die of hunger<\/a>
20\/02\/2024 – KHARTOUM NORTH. The Khartoum North Emergency Room has announced the suspension of all community kitchens operating in the city and multiple deaths in Khartoum state due to hunger in the last few weeks.
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Communications blackout continues in large parts of Sudan<\/a>
19\/02\/2024 – PORT SUDAN. The total telecommunications and internet blackout continues in large parts of Sudan. The outages are causing a severe cash crisis. The managing director of Zain Sudan confirmed to Dabanga that the company\u2019s services have been cut by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
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Sudanese legal expert: hindering access to aid is crime against humanity<\/a>
19\/02\/2024 – WASHINGTON \/ GENEVA. Relief provision seems to have become a new weapon in Sudan’s\u00a0war. International law expert Motasim Ali explained\u00a0that denying humanitarian aid\u00a0is considered a crime against humanity.\u00a0 Over a third of Sudan’s\u00a0\u00a0population\u00a0faces acute hunger.
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\u2018Miserable conditions\u2019 for Sudanese in Libya<\/a>
16\/02\/2024 – KUFRA. An influx of Sudanese refugees fleeing to Libya via the southeastern Kufra crossing has prompted warnings of an impending humanitarian disaster.
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Sudan army and RSF \u2018will continue fighting until victory\u2019<\/a>
13\/02\/2024 – KHARTOUM \/ BABANOUSA \/ WASHINGTON DC. Battles between the SAF and RSF continued in Khartoum state and West Kordofan. The SAF denied rumours\u00a0of a coup within the army, while the RSF said it will step up its operations. The US Ambassador to the United Nations has called for an immediate ceasefire.
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Satellite internet surges in Sudan<\/a>
08\/02\/2024 – NYALA. Unreliable or\u00a0non-existent internet and communication connections, which have plagued Sudan and Darfur since the outbreak of the war, have prompted a proliferation of Starlink satellite receivers across Sudan after the technology became available in August last year.
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SAF-RSF \u2018agree to UN-mediated Sudan aid talks\u2019<\/a>
08\/02\/2024 – GENEVA. United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs\u00a0Martin Griffiths said that the SAF and the paramilitary RSF\u00a0agreed to meet in Switzerland to discuss humanitarian access in Sudan, but added that he is \u201cstill waiting for the actual meeting to happen\u201d.
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MSF: Darfur displaced in \u2018catastrophic\u2019 humanitarian conditions<\/a>
06\/02\/2024 – ZAMZAM \/ NYALA \/ HAMIDIYA \/ KHAMSA DAGAYEG \/ HASAHEISA. Zamzam camp in North Darfur is in a \u201ccatastrophic situation\u201d\u00a0as the security and humanitarian situation in Central Darfur \u201ccontinues to deteriorate,\u201d\u00a0M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res\u00a0report. The camps\u00a0administration\u00a0in South Darfur expressed great concern about \u201cthe catastrophic and terrible humanitarian situation\u201d.
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Sudan communications blackout widens amid accusations<\/a>
05\/02\/2024 – PORT SUDAN. The Sudani and MTN telecommunication and Internet networks continued to be cut off across the country for the second day. Nearly two-thirds of the country\u2019s population is currently unreachable. Zain network went out of service in Port Sudan, Red Sea state. Supporters of the warring SAF and the RSF are exchanging accusations over who is behind the cuts.<\/p>\n