By Bhaswati Bhattacharjee PSC hold a virtual meeting on Sudan on November 15, 2023 The African Union aligns with the AU’s efforts to implement a comprehensive roadmap endorsed last May, which emphasizes an African-led Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa and co-facilitator of the Jeddah process, also briefed the meeting

Anti-balaka militias in Gamba in south-east CAR in 2017. Huguet) Tensions are building ahead of presidential and legislative elections this month in Central African “The [peace] deal has not had the expected impact,” said Hans De Marie Heungoup, a Central Africa analyst “The French-Russian rivalries aim to bring the Central African Republic under tutelage, to make this But coronavirus border closures have hindered efforts , and more than 600,000 Central Africans remain

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South Africa said on Saturday that Mozambique’s neighbours would meet next week to discuss the insurgency

By Omar Faruk An aerial view shows the city of Hargeisa from the outskirts of the city, in Somaliland, on September 16, 2021. (AFP) MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — At least 57 people have been confirmed dead in days of clashes between anti-government fighters and Somaliland security forces in the disputed city of Las-Anod after local leaders said they wanted to re-join the federal government of Somalia, a doctor reported Saturday. Abdimajid Hussein Sugulle, the director-general of a public hospital in Las-Anod, told The Associated Press that more than 400 people also were wounded in nearly a week of fighting. Authorities in Somaliland, a region that separated from Somalia three decades ago and seeks recognition as an independent country , announced a unilateral cease-fire on Friday night. But residents said skirmishes continued in and around the eastern city. Somaliland and the Somali state of Puntland have disputed Las-Anod for years , but the city has been under Somaliland control. The Somaliland government accused clan militants of targeting its army facilities. In return, traditional elders accused Somaliland forces of invading the city and said the only way to restore peace was for the troops to leave. The United Nations has said the fighting has displaced more than 80,000 people. Water and electricity have been cut off amid shelling. “Indiscriminate shelling of civilians is unacceptable and must stop,” the U.N. and international partners said in a statement earlier in the week. The Somali Red Crescent Society said the dead included one of its volunteers, who was killed by a stray bullet. © copyright 2023 The Associated Press.

The South Africa-based ITJP argued that based on universal jurisdiction, the alleged abuses were subject

Khalid Omer Yousif and Wagdi Salih were previously involved in a taskforce that acted against bureaucrats linked to deposed leader Omar al-Bashir. By Al Jazeera Former cabinet minister Khalid Omer Yousif [File: El Tayeb Siddiq/Reuters] Two prominent Sudanese political figures who held top positions in the civilian administration before a military takeover in October have been arrested, their Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition said in a statement on Wednesday. The arrests mark an extension of a crackdown on critics of the military and follow those of dozens of activists linked to a protest movement against the October 25 coup. The two officials detained, Khalid Omer Yousif and Wagdi Salih, had previously been involved in a task force that seized property and fired bureaucrats linked to the regime of Omar al-Bashir , who fell to a popular uprising in 2019. Yousif also served as a cabinet minister in a civilian government under a power-sharing agreement between the military and the FFC. Across Sudan, some 105 people were being held without charges over political activity, most of them members of local resistance committees detained in Khartoum’s Soba prison, Samir Sheikh Idris, a spokesman for an activist lawyers’ group, told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday. Some 2,000 people had been detained and released on bail in connection with demonstrations since the coup, Idris said. Sudan’s public prosecutors’ office did not respond to a request for comment. Lucy Tamlyn, the United States chargé d’affaires to Sudan, said in a Twitter post on Wednesday the “arbitrary arrests and detention of political figures, civil society activists and journalists undermine efforts to resolve Sudan’s political crisis”. The upheaval in Sudan worsened last month following the resignation of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who was the civilian face of the transitional government during the past two years. The prime minister, who was deposed in the October coup only to be reinstated a month later under heavy international pressure, stepped down on January 2 after his efforts to reach a compromise failed. The country, which was already in the grip of a dire economic crisis before the coup, has seen vital foreign aid cut as part of the international community’s condemnation of the takeover. Sources from Yousif’s Sudanese Congress Party said he was arrested from the party headquarters by security forces and taken to the North Khartoum police station. Tweets from Salih’s account said he was taken to the same station and then Omdurman Prison, along with another member of the task force and was under investigation regarding a charge of “breach of trust”. Earlier this week, a committee appointed by military leaders to review the work of the task force accused it of overreach. Sudanese anti-coup protesters take part in a demonstration calling for civilian rule and justice for protesters killed since last year’s coup, in the al-Diyum neighbourhood of the capital Khartoum on February 7, 2022 [AFP] Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, speaking from the capital, Khartoum, reported that the review committee had said many of the decisions were made by the taskforce without reaching a quorum of the committee members. “It says many of the assets that were received from people, who were loyalists to al-Bashir’s regime, were not seized following due process and were not handed over to the Ministry of Finance as they should be,” she added. Firings the taskforce had enacted in the central bank, judiciary and foreign ministry have since been reversed. Thousands of Sudanese marched against military rule on Monday in Khartoum and other cities, with some saying they were concerned about the return to government of members of the deposed Bashir regime. Medics aligned with the protest movement said at least 79 people have been killed as security forces have moved to break up protests with tear gas and gunfire. The military and the police say peaceful protests are allowed, and that casualties are being investigated. Further demonstrations are planned for Thursday and Monday. The United States, which suspended $700m in assistance to Sudan after the coup, has warned that a continued crackdown by the authorities would have “consequences”.