6,500 Sudanese confined in temporary camps in South Sudan

At least 7 Sudanese citizens residing in South Sudan were killed, while about 6,500 Sudanese were confined in temporary camps to preserve their lives, following a wave of violent retaliatory protests that spread across a number of cities in South Sudan last Thursday and continued until Friday, against the backdrop of allegations of liquidating southerners in Al-Gezira State after incitement campaigns led by southern activists, including members of the South Sudanese parliament. The protests were met with a violent response from the southern police, which led to arrests, although the detainees were later released.

At a time when a diplomatic source in the Sudanese Foreign Ministry revealed that a member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), General Shams-Eddin Kabashi, will arrive in Juba to defuse a crisis in which hundreds of Sudanese in South Sudan were subjected to acts of violence, plundering, and vandalization of property in a number of southern cities.

According to Al Jazeera, the diplomatic source accused “extremists” in South Sudan of escalating the events and trying to link them to the unilateral referendum in the disputed Abyei region between the two countries.

The source praised the efforts of the government of South Sudan and its security and military bodies, as these efforts led to reducing tension and restoring calm.