8 Killed, 17 Wounded During Protests in Sudan's Kassala

Internally displaced Sudanese children gesture to the photographer as they play outside their makeshift shelter within the Kalma camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Darfur, Sudan April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo
Internally displaced Sudanese children gesture to the photographer as they play outside their makeshift shelter within the Kalma camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Darfur, Sudan April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo
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8 Killed, 17 Wounded During Protests in Sudan's Kassala

Internally displaced Sudanese children gesture to the photographer as they play outside their makeshift shelter within the Kalma camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Darfur, Sudan April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo
Internally displaced Sudanese children gesture to the photographer as they play outside their makeshift shelter within the Kalma camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Darfur, Sudan April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo

The Sudanese government announced Thursday that eight people were killed during violent protests in eastern Sudan's Kassala State on Thursday.

Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat, medical sources in the city confirmed the number of causalities and said that seven out of those wounded are in a critical condition.

Protests broke out in Kassala against the recent decision by Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok to sack the state's civilian governor Saleh Ammar.

However, Deputy Chairman of the Sovereignty Council in Sudan Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo said that governors of all states will be sacked to form a new government as agreed in the deal signed between the transitional government and the armed forces.

For his part, Ammar held the police and the transitional authority responsible for the violence, accusing them of suppressing the right to freedom of expression.

"The government remained silent despite the chaos and racist attacks that happened throughout the past months – the government stood idle," he noted.

In this context, local sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the authorities permitted the protest in the Freedom Square but the protesters headed towards the government’s headquarters.

Eyewitnesses said that the police shot live bullets at protesters.

Also, State news agency (SUNA) said security forces had used tear gas then bullets against a breakaway group of protesters, some of them armed, who had ignored warnings not to approach a government building.



UN Human Rights Office: 798 People Killed while Receiving Aid in Gaza

Palestinians carry containers for water at a camp for the displaced in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians carry containers for water at a camp for the displaced in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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UN Human Rights Office: 798 People Killed while Receiving Aid in Gaza

Palestinians carry containers for water at a camp for the displaced in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians carry containers for water at a camp for the displaced in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The UN human rights office said on Friday that it had recorded at least 798 killings both at aid points run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and near humanitarian convoys run by other relief groups, including the UN.

The GHF uses private US security and logistics companies to get supplies into Gaza, largely bypassing a UN-led system that Israel says had let militants divert aid.

The United Nations has called the plan "inherently unsafe" and a violation of humanitarian impartiality rules.

"Up until the seventh of July, we've recorded now 798 killings, including 615 in the vicinity of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, and 183 presumably on the route of aid convoys," OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva, according to Reuters.

The GHF began distributing food packages in Gaza at the end of May and has repeatedly denied that incidents had occurred at its sites.