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Sudan military leader fires 6 diplomats who criticized coup

pace of that process. In another development, This raised to nine the num-
Burhan fired Adlan Ibrahim, ber of protesters killed since
Ali bin Yahia, Sudan’s envoy head of the country’s Civil Monday.
in Geneva, was defiant after Aviation Authority, accord-
his dismissal. ing to the official. Adlan’s Hundreds of people marched
dismissal came after the re- on Thursday in a funeral pro-
“I will spare no efforts to re- sumption of flights in and out cession in Khartoum for one
verse the situation, explain of Khartoum’s international of the protesters.
facts and resist the blackout airport resumed Wednesday.
imposed by coup officials on Al least 170 people have been
what is happened my beloved It was not immediately clear wounded since the military’s
country,” he said in video if Ibrahim’s dismissal was takeover, according to a state-
comments posted online. linked to the reopening of the ment issued by the Office for
airport or whether the deci- the Coordination of Human-
Nureldin Satti, the Sudanese sion was made before then. itarian Affairs, or OCHA.
envoy to the U.S., said Tues- The airport remained open Most of the cases, including
day he was working with Su- Thursday morning. moderate and severe ones, are
(AP) — Sudan’s strong- The military allowed Ham- danese diplomats in Brussels, lying in Khartoum hospitals,
man fired at least six am- dok to return home Tuesday Paris, Geneva and New York The country’s Civil Aviation which are battling a shortage
bassadors, including the after international pressure to “resist the military coup in Authority initially said flights in surgical and other medical
envoys to the U.S., the Eu- for his release. support of the heroic struggle would be suspended until supplies as the movement in
ropean Union and France, of the Sudanese people” to Saturday, the day of a planned the capital remains restricted
after they condemned the Burhan said the military achieve the aims of the upris- mass protest against the coup, by roadblocks, OCHA said.
military’s takeover of the forces were compelled to ing against al-Bashir. but then reopened the airport
country, a military official take over because of quar- Wednesday. The military has Also on Thursday, the
said Thursday. rels between political parties Activists have been circu- also reopened some bridges Friends of Sudan Group,
that he claimed could lead to lating videos on social me- that were closed earlier by which consists of several
The diplomats pledged their civil war. However, the coup dia showing mostly empty protesters. EU states as well as the U.S.
support for the now-deposed also comes just weeks before streets in the capital, with and the U.N., issued a state-
government of Prime Minis- Burhan would have had to most stores except for gro- Protesters, meanwhile, took ment condemning the coup
ter Abddalla Hamdok. hand over the leadership of ceries and bakeries closed on to the streets of Khartoum and called for the immedi-
the Sovereign Council, the Thursday. Earlier, protesters and its twin city of Om- ate release of Sudanese of-
Also fired by Gen Abdel- ultimate decision-maker in called for a national strike to durman late Wednesday in ficials who were unlawfully
Fattah Buran late Wednesday Sudan, to a civilian, in a step pressure the military to relin- continued demonstrations detained.
were the Sudanese ambassa- that would reduce the mili- quish power. against the coup amid heavy
dors to Qatar, China and the tary’s hold on the country. security across the capital. “The actions of the secu-
U.N. mission in Geneva, ac- The council has military and Earlier this week, a group By Thursday morning, secu- rity forces deeply jeopardize
cording to the official, who civilian members. Hamdok’s of over 30 Sudanese diplo- rity forces had cleared several Sudan’s hard-won political,
spoke on condition of ano- government ran Sudan’s dai- mats in and outside Sudan makeshift stone barricades economic and legal gains
nymity because he was not ly affairs. condemned the military’s that protesters had set up in made over the past two years
authorized to brief media. takeover in a joint statement, a few residential neighbor- and put Sudan’s security, sta-
The coup threatens to halt saying that the ambassadors hoods. bility and reintegration into
The state-run Sudan TV also Sudan’s fitful transition to in Belgium, Switzerland and the international community
reported the dismissals. democracy, which began after France had pledged their No casualties were report- at risk,” read the statement
the 2019 ouster of long-time continued allegiance to the ed, but a young man died issued by the alliance formed
The ambassadors were fired ruler Omar al-Bashir and Hamdok government. in a Khartoum hospital late after Bashir’s ouster in 2019.
two days after Burhan dis- his Islamist government in a Wednesday of wounds sus-
solved the transitional gov- popular uprising. The Ministry of Culture and tained in Monday’s protests The statement urged the
ernment and detained the Information, still loyal to and another two who were country’s armed forces to re-
prime minister, many gov- The takeover came after Hamdok, said in a Facebook shot in the head earlier this store all transitional arrange-
ernment officials and political weeks of mounting tensions post that the ambassador to week died on Thursday, ac- ments that were based on
leaders in a coup condemned between military and civilian South Africa is also part of cording to activist Nazim military-civilian partnership.
by the U.S. and the West. leaders over the course and this group. Siraj.

Colonial art: Cambridge hands over looted bronze to Nigeria

(AP) — A Cambridge University college working group that concluded the statue belongs artworks from international collections.” The mu-
handed over a bronze cockerel looted from to the Oba of Benin, head of the historic Eweka seum is also in a decades-long tug-of-war with the
Africa in the 19th century to Nigerian author- dynasty of the Benin Empire. The empire centered Greek government over a restitution of the Elgin,
ities on Wednesday, as part of a modest but on Benin City in modern-day Nigeria. or Parthenon, Marbles.
growing effort in some European countries to
return African art taken by colonial powers. His Royal Majesty, Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba Such returns are controversial in Europe, where
N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, welcomed many museums hold works acquired during colo-
Jesus College is the first U.K. institution to give the handover decision. “We truly hope that others nial times.
back one of the artifacts known as the Benin Bronz- will expedite the return of our artworks, which in
es. Speaking ahead of Wednesday’s ceremony, col- many cases are of religious importance to us,” he
lege master Sonita Alleyne called it a “momentous said in a statement.
occasion.”
Hundreds of seized Benin Bronzes ended up in the
British colonial forces took the Okukor statue in British Museum in London, and hundreds more
1897 from the Court of Benin in what is now Ni- were sold to other collections such as the Ethno-
geria — among thousands of artworks seized by logical Museum in Berlin. Germany this year said
occupying troops -- and it was given to the college it would return the items in its possession.
in 1905.
The British Museum said Monday it is work-
The college removed the bronze from public view ing on a collaboration with Nigeria, linked to the
in 2016 after students protested, saying it repre- construction of a new museum in the West Afri-
sented a colonial narrative. The college set up a can country, which will allow to “reunite Benin