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Several protesters were injured on Sunday after clashing with security forces in the capital Khartoum, where they met to reject the political agreement between the army and the recently ousted prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok.
An endless crisis. Thousands of Sudanese demonstrated this Sunday in the capital, Khartoum, to protest against the military coup last October and a subsequent agreement that restored Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok.
The protesters, who arrived from various parts of the country, focused on the context of the third anniversary of the uprising that ended with the military removal of Omar al-Bashir and his Islamist regime of three decades in power.
Following the rally, clashes between protesters and the army broke out in the vicinity of the presidential palace, the seat of the president of the Sovereign Council of Sudan and the office of military leader Abdelfatah al Burhanque.
Since 2019, Sudan has sought the path of democracy without success. The joint government of the military and civilians failed with the recent military coup on October 25 that led to massive protests.
This Sunday, protesters called for the fall of Al Burhan, prompting security forces to use riot control methods, such as tear gas to disperse the concentration.
The clashes occurred despite the efforts of the authorities who placed checkpoints on the main roads into Khartoum and Omdurman. They also installed barricades in government and military buildings to prevent protesters from reaching the army headquarters and the presidential palace.
The clashes left at least three protesters injured, two of them seriously, assured Omar Ezzaldin, one of the leaders of the so-called resistance committees that called the demonstrations. Sudan’s Medical Committee said some protesters were injured, but did not elaborate.
The protesters were protesting against the political pact between Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok and Al Burhan after the riot. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Saturday that Sudan’s stability and unity were in danger and called for a political agreement to safeguard the future of the country.
Mohammed Yousef al-Mustafa, spokesman for the Sudan Professionals Association, assured that the protests this Sunday have “unified all the revolutionary forces behind a single demand: to hand over power to civilians.”
“Today we are facing an important setback in the path of our revolution that threatens the security, unity and stability of the country, which alerts us to the beginning of a retreat towards a well that leaves us neither nation nor revolution,” he declared. Hamdok in a statement. On November 21 the army announced an agreement to reinstate Hamdok, who had been under house arrest.
The protesters rejected the agreement between Hamdok and the military as treason. The prime minister of the government, who was dissolved on October 25 and who was subsequently reappointed, acknowledged the failure of the democratic transition and asked for a new opportunity.
“I want on this occasion to renew my invitation to all revolutionary forces and all those who believe in a civil democratic transition to agree on a political pact that addresses the deficits of the past and achieves the rest of the goals of the revolution,” said Hamdok.
“Prime Minister Hamdok must state a clear position and choose whether to join the people or continue to side with the generals,” Mohammed Yousef al-Mustafa responded to The Associated Press.
Other demonstrations took place in the coastal city of Port Sudan and the northern city of Atbara, the cradle of the uprising against al-Bashir. “The people want the fall of the regime,” the protesters shouted, a slogan used in the Arab Spring riots that began in late 2010 and led to the downfall of leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen.
Pro-democracy groups call for the restructuring of the army and other security agencies under civilian supervision, as well as the dissolution of the militias, including the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary force that emerged from the Janjaweed militias and is accused of committing crimes. during the Darfur conflict and recently against pro-democracy protesters.
Some 45 people have died in the protests that followed the coup, according to a count by a Sudanese medical group.
With EFE and AP
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