Systematic Vandalization and Plundering of Factories in Sudan by the Outlaw RSF Militias and Gangs of Niggers

Investigation: Marwan Al-Rayah

The vandalization and plundering carried out by the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Militia led to the loss of capital assets, production lines, raw materials, production inputs, and even manufactured products in warehouses. The percentage of devastation of Sudanese factories exceeded 90% in the capital, Khartoum, and Gezira State. The repercussions of what the industrial sector was exposed to extend to the displacement of workers and the loss of families’ source of income, in addition to the damage to the economy by halting the production of outputs with an economic and social impact, particularly essential goods, medicines, and food products, as the theft and destruction of factories contributed to the starvation of citizens.

Gangs in Khartoum

Large groups of gangs (Niggers) participated in the theft of factories in Khartoum, as video clips during the first days of the war showed these gangs stealing many factories in the Bahri area, most notably the Sega and Weta factories and the Abarsi Gas Company Factory and some factories surrounding the Bahri industrial area, which confirms the cooperation of these gangs with the militia in looting factories.

Transfer of Factories

The war led to the cessation of many economic activities, such as trade, industry and agriculture, which caused a sharp decline in the gross domestic product in addition to the complete destruction of the infrastructure of factories, and the insurgent RSF Militia brought in technicians who worked to dismantle a number of factories using technical methods and transferred them to Darfur.

Industrial Sector Losses

The official Sudan News Agency quoted the Secretary-General of the Arab Union for Export Development at the League of Arab States, Abdel-Moneim Mohamed Mahmoud, as saying that the losses of the industrial sector in Sudan due to the war are estimated at about 20 billion dollars, and Sudanese banks do not have the capacity to provide comprehensive financing to rebuild the sector. The industrial sector in Sudan, despite its decline in recent years, is one of the pillars of the national economy, most notably the cement, iron and steel industries, and agricultural equipment, besides oil refining, car assembly, ethanol production and pharmaceuticals.

Heavy Losses

The ongoing war in Sudan has inflicted heavy losses on business owners and workers in the private sector due to the continued vandalization and plundering by the rebel RSF militia in Khartoum, Gezira and Sennar. According to some factory owners, investors and the Sudanese Chambers of Industry Federation, the largest factories and companies, which are almost concentrated in the capital, Khartoum, have been subjected to destruction, looting, theft and smashing of machines and machineries by the rebel militia, and their disoperation has caused a significant shortage of locally produced goods and foodstuffs. The trend has become widespread towards importing from abroad. In addition to that, five million workers have lost their source of income since the outbreak of the war.

Reconstruction of factories

The Secretary-General of the Arab Union for Industrial Export Development, Abdel-Moneim Mohamed Mahmoud, announced the Union’s readiness to organize an Arab international conference to rehabilitate and rebuild the industrial sector in Sudan after the end of the war. He underlined the need to prepare a comprehensive survey on Sudanese factories that were completely or partially destroyed in the war. He called for the establishment of new industrial cities in the various states of Sudan and equipping them with the necessary infrastructure.

He stressed the importance of the state preventing the export of raw materials after the end of the war except after manufacturing and adding value to them.

For his part, the Secretary-General of the Federation of Sudanese Chambers of Industry, Abbas Ali, expressed his deep dissatisfaction with the extent of the destruction, sabotage and looting that affected various economic sectors in the country, including the industrial sector.

He stressed the difficulty of assessing the extent of the actual losses incurred by the industrial sector, noting that the continuation of acts of sabotage and looting in the states of Khartoum and Gezira in particular makes it impossible to determine the exact numbers.

He pointed out that the vandalization of the infrastructure, including electricity and machinery, in addition to the looting and sabotage that affected the industrial sector, had caused it huge losses that were difficult to compensate for.