A Sudanese employee previously working for UNAMID mission called Randa
Ismail Dawoud has been wounded, after being run over by a car driven by a
foreign employee in front of the UNAMID mission in El Fasher in Darfur.
The incident occurred when dozens of Sudanese workers who had been
separated from the mission organized a protest in front of the mission
headquarters in El-Fasher demanding financial dues that dates back to their
dismissal in 2015.Meanwhile, UNAMID closed all the entrances preventing
Sudanese and foreigners from entering.
One of the protest organizers, Suleiman Mohamed Saleh, told ” Darfur 24″;, that a
UNAMID vehicle driven by a foreigner ran over a former employee of the mission,
called Randa Ismail, while she was participating in the protest in front of the
mission’s gate.
He explained that a number of protesters tried to rescue her after the foreigner
left her lying on the ground and started entering the mission’s premises, adding
that the protest was organized due to the delay of financial dues payment for
262 workers that dates back to 2015. Saleh accused UNAMID of not living up to its
promises of paying dues of the previously dismissed national staff. Saying ,that
the mission deliberately adopts policy of procrastination when it comes to the
payment of dismissed Sudanese staff entitlements .
In the same context, North Darfur police force arrested a number of protesters
who organized a protest in front of the UNAMID headquarters, where they were
taken by a car to the central police station so as to file a lawsuit against them,
accusing them of public nuisance.