A high appeals court in Sudan’s Al Gezira State quashed an order by the Sennar state governor to deduct 10% of farmlands to make way for grazing, reversing an earlier appeal.

Farmers in Sudan’s Sennar State previously rejected the implementation of a court decision that agriculturalists must set aside 10% of their total rainy-season cultivable areas in order to open up paths for nomads and the resettlement of nomads from South Sudan. In April, an Appeals Court in Sinja town had upheld that decision.

The deputy head of the rainy-season cultivation farmers’ committee in Sennar, Abdel-Azim Ahmed El Fakki, told Radio Tamazuj that they will receive the copy of the decision on Sunday.

Abdel-Azim said the decision will be submitted to the Sinja court in order to inform the State Minister of Agriculture to stop the implementation of the decision.