By Enyichukwu Enemanna
A petrol refinery in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, has resumed operations after a brief halt stemming from an act of “sabotage” on one of its pipelines, government owned media said on Monday.
SUNA news agency says the pipeline was “forced to stop for a limited period due to sabotage of the crude carrier line.”
It is however not clear when the purported sabotage took place or what it entailed at the report did not give further details. It said all pipelines were back working now, it said.
The report comes as Sudan’s ruling generals and the pro-democracy movement’s main factions continue negotiations toward finding a political settlement.
Sudan’s fragile democratic transition was truncated by a military coup last October when the ruling generals led by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan wiped away the civilian half of the country’s power-sharing government following three decades of repressive Islamist rule under Omar Al-Bashir.
The fallout has seen pro-democracy marches that have been ruthlessly suppressed by the Sudanese security forces.
