SUDAN: UN CONDEMNS RSF FOR KILLING 400 CIVILIANS. (PHOTO).

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 Sudan: UN condemns RSF for killing 400 civilians The United Nations Security Council expressed deep concern over escalating violence in Sudan as recent attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have left about 400 civilians dead, including children and aid workers. “The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the repeated attacks on El Fasher as well as on the Zamzam and Abu Shouk camps for internally displaced persons in recent days by the RSF,” Jerome Bonnafont, Permanent Representative of France to the UN and President of the Security Council, said in a press statement, Anadolu Agency reported. “They called for the RSF to be held accountable for these attacks,” he added. ‘Immediate end to fighting’ The statement also reaffirmed the Council's demand for an immediate end to the fighting, with members calling for de-escalation in and around El Fasher. “Council members called on the parties to the conflict to protect civilians and comply with their obligatio...

DSS BLAMES ADEJUWON SOYINKA'S ARREST ON MISTAKEN IDENTITY, RELEASES PASSPORT. (PHOTO).


 DSS Blames Adejuwon Soyinka’s Arrest On Mistaken Identity, Releases Passport


Nigeria’s secret police, the State Security Service (SSS) on Friday, 30 August, returned the seized passport of multiple-award winning investigative journalist Adejuwon Soyinka, blaming his arrest on “possible mistaken identity.”


Inibehe Effiong, human rights activist and public interest lawyer, accompanied Mr Soyinka on a visit to the SSS office in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday to retrieve the seized passport.


Reacting to the development, Mr Effiong said “the secret police’s decision to blame the whole incident on possible mistaken identity did not come to me as a surprise.”

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