Emergency Meeting to Reorganize Khartoum Central Market

The Khartoum Local Security Affairs Coordination Committee held an emergency meeting on Thursday at the Local Market Police Department to review the final arrangements for implementing the comprehensive plan to reorganize the Central Fruit and Vegetable Market, ahead of its reopening in the coming days.

The meeting was chaired by the locality’s Executive Director, Abdel Monem Al-Bashir, who directed full coordination among all relevant entities, including security and executive units, as well as the newly formed market traders’ committee.

The meeting emphasized the need to eliminate all security and regulatory violations, including unregulated housing and street vending around the market area. It also confirmed the enforcement of a state-level decision to regulate and relocate foreigners, and to prohibit tea and food vendors, begging, and public shisha smoking.

The meeting reviewed recent efforts to remove dangerous war remnants and tow broken-down vehicles from the streets to a secure location.

The committee praised the executive work that preceded the organizational plan, which helped dismantle the market that had been used by the Rapid Support Forces militia as a major economic and military base for conducting illicit activities, including selling looted goods, weapons, ammunition, and fuel.