Sudan Restores Public Property in Blow to Bashir Allies

Sudan Restores Public Property in Blow to Bashir Allies
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Sudan Restores Public Property in Blow to Bashir Allies

Sudan Restores Public Property in Blow to Bashir Allies

Sudan’s Committee for Dismantling Ingaz (Salvation) Regime and Removing Empowerment has issued decisions to dismiss figures who were serving during the term of ousted President Omar al-Bashir.

The decisions target those in leadership positions in a number of ministries and government institutions and call for seizing their property and preventing them from traveling abroad, pending judicial action.

Member of Sudan’s Sovereign Council Mohamed Alfaki Suleiman, vice-chairman of the Committee, affirmed that the decisions are consensual.

He said all the transitional authority’s institutions have agreed that dismantling the ousted regime is a strategic approach that is stipulated in the constitutional document, being one of the most important goals of the protest movement.

At a press conference he held in Khartoum on Thursday, Alfaki said the Committee has taken 13 decisions to end the role of Bashir-era figures in state institutions.

Some decisions have been postponed for further study, he noted.

All ministries are currently reviewing the files of their employees, Alfaki said, adding that a number of decisions have been transferred to the general prosecutor.

The decisions include restoring public institutions and real estate seized by some figures for their own benefit, dissolving unions, and confiscating their assets and funds.

Member of the Committee Wajdi Saleh said 51 employees have been fired from the Ministry of Youth and Sports, in addition to 51 Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning staff members.

The Committee decided to dismiss four managers and employees at the Ministry of Urban Planning, and managers of the Land Authority and the Housing and Construction Fund, Saleh added.

It also dismissed the General Manager of the “Blue Nile” channel, Hassan Fadl al-Mawla, in addition to redeeming 16 million shares from the “Nile Bank” for the Ministry of Finance, Khartoum State.

A decision to revoke the licenses of a number of organizations and associations established under Bashir was also issued, Saleh noted, adding that all of their real estate accounts and assets were seized and transferred to the Ministry of Finance.

The Committee also ordered freezing the accounts and shares, and seizing the property of a number of companies and brand names registered under pro-Bashir associations and organizations.



Fears for Gaza Hospitals as Fuel and Aid Run Low

The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said Friday that hospitals have only two days' fuel left before they must restrict services, after the UN warned aid delivery to the war-devastated territory is being crippled. - AFP
The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said Friday that hospitals have only two days' fuel left before they must restrict services, after the UN warned aid delivery to the war-devastated territory is being crippled. - AFP
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Fears for Gaza Hospitals as Fuel and Aid Run Low

The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said Friday that hospitals have only two days' fuel left before they must restrict services, after the UN warned aid delivery to the war-devastated territory is being crippled. - AFP
The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said Friday that hospitals have only two days' fuel left before they must restrict services, after the UN warned aid delivery to the war-devastated territory is being crippled. - AFP

The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said Friday that hospitals have only two days' fuel left before they must restrict services, after the UN warned aid delivery to the war-devastated territory is being crippled.

The warning came a day after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant more than a year into the Gaza war.

The United Nations and others have repeatedly decried humanitarian conditions, particularly in northern Gaza, where Israel said Friday it had killed two commanders involved in Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack that triggered the war.

Gaza medics said an overnight Israeli raid on the cities of Beit Lahia and nearby Jabalia resulted in dozens killed or missing.

Marwan al-Hams, director of Gaza's field hospitals, told reporters all hospitals in the Palestinian territory "will stop working or reduce their services within 48 hours due to the occupation's (Israel's) obstruction of fuel entry".

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was "deeply concerned about the safety and well-being of 80 patients, including 8 in the intensive care unit" at Kamal Adwan hospital, one of just two partly operating in northern Gaza.

Kamal Adwan director Hossam Abu Safia told AFP it was "deliberately hit by Israeli shelling for the second day" Friday and that "one doctor and some patients were injured".

Late Thursday, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, Muhannad Hadi, said: "The delivery of critical aid across Gaza, including food, water, fuel and medical supplies, is grinding to a halt."

He said that for more than six weeks, Israeli authorities "have been banning commercial imports" while "a surge in armed looting" has hit aid convoys.

Issuing the warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, the Hague-based ICC said there were "reasonable grounds" to believe they bore "criminal responsibility" for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare, and crimes against humanity including over "the lack of food, water, electricity and fuel, and specific medical supplies".

At least 44,056 people have been killed in Gaza during more than 13 months of war, most of them civilians, according to figures from Gaza's health ministry which the United Nations considers reliable.