Daily monitor, 9 Jan 2021
Headlines
Alsudani Aldawlyya
- EEA-C, FRC bans travel of four past regime’s leadership
- Curricula crisis escalates, Education minster waves resignation
- Central bank requests accounts of army corporations
- German foreign office: Sudan faces challenges down the passage of peace, democracy
- Arbitrarily dismissed from Gezira University back to service
- Sudan confirms continued GERD negotiations
Al Democrati
- FFC: Security agents of ousted regime still in service
- AL Hilo: Freezing of curricula aligning with militant Islamist
- Massive Environment sanitation campaign in Omdurman
- IDPs/Refugee commission: Displaced raped by armed men
Al Intibaha
- Ethiopian cells provide reconnaissance/intelligence
- Al Hilo on curricula: Government sided with radicals
- Authorities suspend Ethiopian refugees’ influx from Kassala, Gedarif
- Himedti concludes visit to Asmara
- Refugees commission: 44,499 Ethiopian refugee in wd El hilew camp
Al Sayha
- Himedti, Afwerki discuss Ethiopian crisis
- SRF leader: Formation, announcement of new government soon
- Sudan ranks third among states of highest inflation rate
- Sudan: Resuming GERD negotiations contingent upon greater experts’ role
Al Hadatha
- Expert refutes Ethiopia’s claims of border dispute
- Workers at Khartoum water corporation enter fourth day of strike
- Koshib’s lawyer: Defendant should not be arrested without trial because prosecutor cannot protect her witnesses
- Sudanese doctors trade-union to be reinstated shortly
News Brief
Among commonly reported topics topping today’s news were the following headers:
Central bank of Sudan orders banks to release corporate military accounts;
1200 smuggled vehicles await registration in White Nile; and,
the Education’s minster hint resignation in complaint of PM Hamdok’s recent standing: against new pro-change educational policies, which was met with:
Wide condemnation to PM Hamdok’s decision to freeze efforts by the national curricula centre and educational research; a standing most commentators, including political leaders, find defaulting, if not serving to radical agenda set out in curricula by the ousted regime.
Additionally, almost all dailies issued in Khartoum today covered the short visit of the transitional sovereign council’s deputy chairman Himedti to Eritrea; and his meeting with the Eritrean president, Isaias Afwerki. Lt., Gen. Himedti said the visit comes in response to recent across border skirmishes with Ethiopian forces and militias, the ensuing flux of refugees and IDPs, also, in the framework of boosting neighbouring ties between the two sisterly countries.