EU ambassador assaulted in Khartoum home

The EU’s ambassador in Sudan has been assaulted in his home in Khartoum, top EU diplomat Josep Borrell has said.

Borrell did not reveal any details of the attack, but an EU spokeswoman said the ambassador was “OK”. “Security of diplomatic premises and staff is a primary responsibility of Sudanese authorities,”  Borrell wrote on Twitter. Although Borrell didn’t name him, the EU’s ambassador to Sudan is Aidan O’Hara, an Irish diplomat.

The BBC has contacted  O’Hara’s office.  O’Hara trained as a lawyer in Dublin, before he started his career in Ireland’s foreign office in 1986. Before moving to Sudan, he worked as EU ambassador in Djibouti and Irish ambassador to Ethiopia and South Sudan.

(BBC)