Fwd: New bombing Jebel Marra 'violates ceasefire': SLM-AW, Darfur & Sudan News Update (19 - 26 April)

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Darfur & Sudan News Update by Radio Dabanga (19 - 26 April) View this email in your browser New bombing Jebel Marra 'violates ceasefire': SLM-AW April 26 - 2017 JEBEL MARRA The Sudanese Air Force bombed villages in north-west Jebel Marra on Saturday and Sunday, leading to an unknown number of casualties. At least 15 villages in the area between Maya in Kabkabiya locality and Aja in northern Jebel Marra were bombed. A spokesman for the association of displaced people in Darfur reported that the explosions set fire to many houses. With the aim to hit positions of the holdout rebel group in Torentora, government and militia forces launched an attack on the area on Saturday morning. The spokesman for the rebel SLM-AW said that they managed to repel the attackers and killed 17 militiamen. After a relative calm for months, the Sudanese air force dropped three barrel bombs on the area of Jawa in the eastern part of Jebel Marra on 6 April. Other areas were bombed in October. The rebels condemned the aerial bombardments by the Sudanese Air Force. “The government had announced an unilateral ceasefire,” said SLM-AW leader Abdel Wahid El Nur. “This government attack on the movement's bases underlines the lack of credibility of the government.” Former United States President Barack Obama has ordered the easing of financial sanctions against Sudan because he found the country had reduced military activities in the Darfur region, among other reported improvements. Continue Reading Author's international literary award 'for all Sudanese' April 20 - 2017 GENEVA Sudanese novelist Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin has won the 2017 edition of the Committed Book Prize of La Cène Littéraire for his novel Le Messie du Darfour – a French translation of his Arabic work entitled The Messiah of Darfur – published in 2016 by Zulma and currently, banned in Sudan. In an interview with Radio Dabanga Sakin says that “the announcement is a declaration of victory not only for me but for all Sudanese”. The annual La Cène Littéraire awards are based in Switzerland, and honour African literature than has been translated into French. The Messiah of Darfur, which deals with the war in the region, is banned in Sudan. Last February, during a book fair in Khartoum, the books were confiscated by censorship officers together with other works. But the novel has found a great success at international level, where it won the prize of Resistance literature in France, and reached the short list for ‘best novel’ in the competition of the French Academy. Sakin says “it describes the war in Darfur as a war for land and power, rather than a war between Zurga and Arabs… it is a war fought by the regime in Khartoum in favour of the Islamists”. La Cène Littéraire describes the book as “a dense, epic and edifying novel about the Darfur War." 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