Sudan Deploys Additional Forces to Enhance Security in Conflict Areas

 Archival photo of displaced people near El Fasher city in South Darfur state (AFP)
Archival photo of displaced people near El Fasher city in South Darfur state (AFP)
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Sudan Deploys Additional Forces to Enhance Security in Conflict Areas

 Archival photo of displaced people near El Fasher city in South Darfur state (AFP)
Archival photo of displaced people near El Fasher city in South Darfur state (AFP)

Sudan’s Security and Defense Council announced taking measures to face the current security situation, in light of tribal conflicts in some areas, which have left dozens dead and wounded.

The Security Council, chaired by President of the Sudanese Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, listened to detailed reports from the police, military intelligence, and the General Intelligence Service on the security situation in the country.

It mainly focused on the cities of El-Geneina, Nyala, Port Sudan, and the capital, Khartoum.

A senior source told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Council has taken several decisions, including the deployment of additional forces in some areas and boosting the police presence on the roads.

The Council also ordered the formation of an investigation committee from the central government in the attacks on the United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) headquarters in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, the source noted.

He pointed to orders issued to the leaders of the security services to submit detailed reports on the security situation in all parts of the country during the upcoming meeting of the Security and Defense Council.

Meanwhile, UNAMID reported new statistics for the numbers of dead and injured in the incidents that had taken place in El Geneina city last week.

It said it is deeply concerned about reports of intercommunal violence in West Darfur that left 65 people dead and approximately 54 injured, displaced thousands of civilian population, destroyed shelters and burnt villages.

“UNAMID condemns the violence and stresses the importance of resolving all disputes peacefully and amicably and calls on all parties to restrain from the use of force, especially against the civilian population, including women and children,” it said in a statement.

It highlighted the egregious intercommunal clashes that have deteriorated the security and humanitarian situation in El Geneina and the surrounding area.

It also acknowledged the efforts exerted by the Government to contain the situation and called upon relevant government authorities to maximize their efforts to establish a protective environment and restore peace and order in and around the greater El Geneina community.



Libya Receives Invitation from Greece to Maritime Zone Talks to Ease Strained Ties

Children play by the tents, as recently arrived migrants shelter at the temporary migrants' camp staged on a soccer pitch in the region of Rethymno in Crete island, Greece, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Stefanos Rapanis/File Photo
Children play by the tents, as recently arrived migrants shelter at the temporary migrants' camp staged on a soccer pitch in the region of Rethymno in Crete island, Greece, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Stefanos Rapanis/File Photo
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Libya Receives Invitation from Greece to Maritime Zone Talks to Ease Strained Ties

Children play by the tents, as recently arrived migrants shelter at the temporary migrants' camp staged on a soccer pitch in the region of Rethymno in Crete island, Greece, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Stefanos Rapanis/File Photo
Children play by the tents, as recently arrived migrants shelter at the temporary migrants' camp staged on a soccer pitch in the region of Rethymno in Crete island, Greece, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Stefanos Rapanis/File Photo

Greece has invited Libya's internationally recognized government in Tripoli to start talks on demarcating exclusive economic zones in the Mediterranean Sea, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said late on Wednesday.

The move is aimed at mending relations between the two neighbors, strained by a controversial maritime deal signed in 2019 between the Libyan government and Türkiye, Greece's long-standing foe, which mapped out a sea area close to the Greek island of Crete.

"We invite - and I think you may soon see progress in this area - we invite the Tripoli government to discuss with Greece the delimitation of a continental shelf and an exclusive economic zone," Mitsotakis told local Skai television, Reuters reported.

Greece this year launched a new tender to develop its hydrocarbon resources off Crete, a move that Libya has objected to, saying some of the blocks infringed its own maritime zones.

Law and order has been weak in Libya since a 2011 uprising that toppled dictator Muammar Gaddafi, with the country divided by factional conflict into eastern and western sections for over a decade.

Therefore, any communication with Libya was not easy, Mitsotakis said. He indicated that Greece was determined to continue talking to both the Tripoli-based government and a parallel administration based in Benghazi.

In recent months, Athens has sought closer cooperation with Libya to help stem a surge in migrant arrivals from the North African country to Greece's southern islands of Gavdos and Crete and passed legislation banning migrants arriving from Libya by sea from requesting asylum.

In an incident earlier this month, the European Union migration commissioner and ministers from Italy, Malta and Greece were denied entry to the eastern part of divided Libya, shortly after meeting the internationally recognized government that controls the west of Libya.