Police force return to work in North Darfur locality after 13-year absence
July 25, 2016 (EL-FASHER) – Police has re-established presence in the locality of Ambro, 350 km. north west of North Darfur capital, El-Fasher for the first time since the armed conflict erupted in the restive region.
The Sudanese army has been fighting several armed movements in Darfur since 2003. Following three months of fierce fighting in Jebel Marra, last April the army declared Darfur free of rebels. However, the different rebel groups dismissed these statements.
Commissioner of Ambro locality Ali Ahmed al-Tahir told Sudan Tribune that the return of the police to the locality after 13 years underscores that the situation in the area is stable, praising efforts exerted by police to maintain security across the state.
He added the deployment of police to the various administrative units in the locality is underway, pointing the police presence would allow the residents to return to normal life.
The commissioner added that the locality faced considerable problems and the residents suffered from clashes between farmers and herders in the absence of the police.
He hailed the efforts of the North Darfur governor, police director and the other security organs in establishing security and returning the police force to Ambro, saying they would make every possible effort maintain security and deploy police across the locality.
Al-Tahir further pointed that the North Darfur police director promised to send further police officers to cover all administrative units in the locality.
Last month, North Darfur state governor Abdel-Wahid Youssef acknowledged existence of security problems in the state particularly in the capital, El-Fasher.
He accused unnamed parties of seeking to keep the “insecurity and instability” situation in Darfur, and pointed to “hidden hands that prompt the security chaos in all Darfur’s five states not only North Darfur”.
(ST)