A group of Sudanese university students living in Kampala, Uganda have formally rejected Sudan’s upcoming elections.
The students said that voting while there is ongoing fighting in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states will not be representative.
They expressed their opposition to President Omar al-Bashir but said that elections will not bring about a change in leadership in their home country.
Kume Karlo, a Sudanese student studying political science at Saint Lawrence University in Kampala, said: “We do not want one part of the country to be stable and the other one is not stable, once stability has to come, it has to come for the whole country. It has to be comprehensive.”
The students accused Bashir of killing his own citizens in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states where rebels are fighting the government, but rejected voting as a means to removing the president from power.
“The party [of Bashir] just took power by force and if it wants to be removed by force, we are ready for that,” said Atunia Joseph, a student at Cavendish University.