DBA urges members leave Geneina, W Darfur Sudan

Report at Darfur24.com
Published Sunday 18 June 2023, 8:08 pm - here is a full copy:

DBA urges its affiliates to leave El-geneina as security situation worsens

 

El-geneina, June 18 (Darfur 24) - The Darfur Bar Association DBA urged its members Sunday to evacuate El-geneina, the provincial capital of west Darfur state .

The Khartoum based association announced Saturday it had received information that its former Chief who resides in El-Geneina had been killed.

In a statement seen by Darfur 24, DBA said its former boss and founder in West Darfur was killed.

The association which advocates and defends human rights in the volatile region of Darfur, referred Sunday to a systematic targeting against community leaders in West Darfur state, mainly, family members and relatives of the Sultan, saying that Prince Badawi Masri, cousin of the Sultan of Masalit was assassinated Saturday as well as the Sultan’s cousin.

Darfur24 correspondent in El-Geneina said 3 mayors a number of doctors, including Dean of the faculty of medicine at El-geneina university were killed as well as three lawyers and many civil service employees in the city of El-geneina.

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