Residents of Sinkat in Red Sea state blocked the Sinkat-Port Sudan road on Sunday in protest against the kidnapping of a boy last week.
Journalist Osman Hashim told Radio Dabanga that dozens of people staged a sit-in on the road at about 10 am on Sunday. “They burned tires as well.â€
The demonstrators expressed their distress at the silence of the government authorities after the abduction of a nine-year-old boy by unknown assailants in Sinkat on Friday.
Government forces intervened and the protesters dispersed after local authorities pledged to investigate the case and search for the boy.