Sudan: Army orders probe after airstrike kills 72

Sudan’s de facto leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, ordered an investigation into Saturday’s airstrike on a gold-mining site at Jabal al-Uqaydat, near the Egyptian border. The Emergency Lawyers group says 72 people were killed and has accused Egypt, but AFP could not independently verify the claim and Cairo has made no official comment. A witness said an aircraft carried out several strikes, causing panic at the site. Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council formed a commission of prosecutors, judges and security representatives to investigate the circumstances and report its findings.