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Smoke rises behind barricades laid by protesters to block a street in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to stop paramilitary vehicles from driving through the area
SUDANESE opposition groups pulled more than 40 bodies from the River Nile today as the country descended further into a bloodbath after the feared Janjaweed militia instigated a massacre.
“Forty bodies of our noble martyrs were recovered from the River Nile today,” the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said.
As the situation continues to worsen, the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) — an umbrella organisation of doctors, lawyers, trade unions and opposition parties, rejected an offer of talks from military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, warning: “This call is not serious.”
The spectre of ethnic cleansing looms over hundreds of thousands trapped without food, water, or medicines in the North Darfur state’s besieged capital, El Fasher, writes PAVAN KULKARNI
