Noticias

Sudanese Minister of Foreign Affairs has called on the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to intensify pressures on the armed groups and opposition parties to sign the African Union Roadmap Agreement for peace in Sudan.

According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, Ghandour who is currently in New York briefed Ban Ki Moon on the outcome of the national dialogue and the efforts exerted to convince holdout opposition groups to join the peace process.

Sudán del Sur y Sudán reanudaron hoy conversaciones sobre temas sumamente complejos, entre ellos la delimitación de las fronteras y los ingresos por la explotación petrolera, aspectos pendientes desde 2011, cuando se separaron.

Según opinaron analistas políticos, Jartum espera que la mejora de las relaciones bilaterales pueda ayudar a resolver el asunto de las rebeliones persistentes en ambos lados de la frontera y que también provocaron una prolongada guerra de palabras.

La Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados, ha tomado con gran preocupación, la noticia sobre las recientes expulsiones colectivas de eritreos desde Sudán y hacia Eritrea. Al menos 313 eritreos fueron arrestados el 6 de mayo en la ciudad de Dongola, al norte del país. Estas personas fueron juzgadas y condenadas por “entrada ilegal” a Sudán de acuerdo a las leyes nacionales de inmigración y fueron obligados a regresar a Eritrea el 22 de mayo.

 El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU prorrogó hoy por un año sus sanciones sobre Sudán del Sur y exigió a las partes del conflicto en el país africano el cumplimiento de los acuerdos de paz.

En una resolución, el Consejo decidió seguir adelante con el actual régimen de castigos, que incluye medidas financieras y de restricción de viajes para varios individuos.

Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) Sunday have released a number of graduates of the University of Khartoum after nearly two months of detention without charge.

In April 2016, government security forces, including national security and riot police, clamped down on student demonstrations against the sale of Khartoum University buildings, as well as the earlier detention of protesters and a range of other issues at campuses across Sudan.

According to HRW, some have been held for more than a month in unknown locations without access to lawyers or contact with their families.

The Deputy Director for HRW's Africa Division, Leslie Lefkow, told DW that the victims were at increased risk of torture.

South Africa's High Court has denied the government leave to appeal against a court ruling that it should have arrested Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir during a recent visit.

The High Court on Wednesday rejected the government's bid to appeal the ruling that it had a legal duty to arrest the Sudanese president.

"We do not hold the opinion that the appeal has reasonable prospects of success at all," Judge Hans Fabricius said in the country's administrative capital Pretoria.

"The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs."

An official in Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) said on Monday that president Omer al-Bashir will hold a meeting with political party leaders next week to schedule the opening session of the national dialogue.

The head of the NCP political sector Mustafa Osman Ismail told reporters that his party did not seek to postpone the dialogue but that the debate took place within the dialogue’s 7 +7 mechanism on the date change.

The National Liberation and Justice Party (NLJP) headed Tijani al-Sissi underscored on Wednesday that the chairman of Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) is appointed by the president of the republic and chosen from the signatories of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD).

The NLJP was reacting to a statement by the Justice and Equality Movement of Bakheit Dabajo (JEM-Dabajo) Tuesday saying they would propose a candidate to the Sudanese president for the DRA chairmanship.