Two Sudanese reporters were seized on Monday by joint forces from rebel movements aligned with General al-Burhan’s army (SAF) in Abu Shouk displacement camp, north of El Fasher, North Darfur, eyewitnesses told Darfur 24.
Fighters from the Sudan Liberation Movement-Transitional Council (SLM-TC) detained journalist Nasr Yaqoub and colleague Mohamed Ahmed Nizar at Yaqoub’s stall in the camp market and took them to the movement’s El Fasher headquarters, the sources said.
The arrests appear linked to Yaqoub’s public claim that an SLM-TC fighter shot him last week after he refused to surrender his Starlink satellite-internet device; Nizar had amplified the allegation on social media.
Residents accuse the joint force of repeated looting and intimidation in Abu Shouk, often targeting Starlink units that have become the region’s sole reliable internet lifeline since conventional telecoms infrastructure was wrecked by the conflict.
