Compensation agreement allows Sudan-CAR border to reopen
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Radio Tamazuj
Sudanese and Central African communities agreed to reopen border routes to pastoralists and traders after compensation was paid to families of people killed in clashes in 2025. The agreement also provides for the reopening of the Um Dafuq crossing in South Darfur, according to Radio Tamazuj.
Sudanese and Central African communities along the border between the two countries have agreed to reopen cross-border routes to pastoralists and traders after compensation was paid to the families of people killed in clashes in 2025, Radio Tamazuj reported on Tuesday. The agreement was reached in Um Dafuq, in Sudan’s South Darfur State, at a meeting bringing together Sudanese tribal leaders and representatives of Central African communities.
The compensation payments were handed over in full during the meeting, according to Sheikh Jumaa Abdelkarim, deputy head of the Ta’aisha Native Administration. Participants also discussed reopening the Um Dafuq crossing to pastoral and commercial activities. The closure of the routes since October had limited access to grazing land and concentrated herds in increasingly smaller areas.
The agreements were signed for the Ta’aisha by Hamad Al-Hussein and Badr al-Din Hassan Mohammed. On the Central African side, they were signed by Mahmoud Kamtir, chairman of the peace committee for the Anja area, and Yousuf Abdallah Ramadan, chairman of the committee for the Birau area. The communities concerned include the Kara, Sara, Gula, Runga and Yulu in the Central African Republic, as well as the Ta’aisha, Beni Halba and Salamat in Sudan.
