Sudan’s Bashir to inaugurate military factories relocated out of residential neighborhoods

June 7, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will inaugurate several military factories on Tuesday that have been relocated outside residential areas in the state of Khartoum after it was determined that they pose a risk to the population.

Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) spokesman Colonel Khaled Saad al-Sawarmi said in a statement that these factories specialize in filling gunpowder.

Al-Sawarmi explained that it is now a government strategy to empty the capital and residential areas from military installations especially given the risks posed by the bombing of Khartoum’s Yarmouk military complex in 2012 by Israel.

He said that these plants were chosen, designed and implemented in accordance with the latest safety and security standards in the world.

In August 2006, an explosion occurred in an ammunition factory in a suburb of Khartoum which led to several deaths and injuries.

A year after, a truck carrying ammunition exploded near an army unit in Khartoum.

Last year, the National Security and Intelligence Service (NISS) said it contained “limited fire” at a warehouse containing ammunition and training equipment at training centers north of Khartoum.

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