One killed in Sudan in protest against thousands of military authorities Protest News

At least one Sudanese anti-coup protester has been killed by security forces, according to doctors and activists, who have rallied thousands of people across Sudan to denounce military rule.

The Sudanese Central Medical Commission (CCSD) said the unidentified protester had “fired a live bullet in the head when Pochist forces took part in the demonstrations” in Omdurman, a twin city in the capital Khartoum.

Activist Nazim Sirag says at least one man has been killed when security forces opened direct fire on protesters in Arbaeen Street, the Associated Press news agency reported.

The death came a day after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Sudanese security forces to “stop using deadly force against protesters and commit to an independent investigation.”

Earlier, security forces fired tear gas at Khartoum protesters, according to witnesses and images posted on social media. Demonstrators gathered in several cities on Thursday for the first wide-ranging demonstration since Abdalla Hamdo announced his resignation as prime minister.

Since the Sudanese armed forces, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, seized power on October 25 and sparked international condemnation, protests have been the latest in a series of protests.

Thursday’s killing brings the death toll to 58, according to the CCSD.

The coup, which saw the removal of the civilian leader and his arrest, diverted the astonishing transition to democracy that began in April 2019 after the ouster of former leader Omar al-Bashir.

“Our march will continue until our revolution and our civilian government are restored,” said Mojataba Hussein, a 23-year-old protester in Khartoum.

Another protester, 22-year-old Samar al-Tayeb, said: “We will not stop until our country returns.”

“We will once again occupy the streets, marching towards the tyrant’s palace, abandoning military rule and holding on to peace, our strongest weapon,” he said in a statement from resistance committees organizing protests in Bahrain.

‘Dangerous crossroads’

Thursday’s protests continued despite increased security and the closure of the main streets leading to the presidential palace and the army headquarters.

Internet and mobile services also appeared to have been disrupted since this morning, Reuters reporters and the NetBlocks Internet Blockade Observatory reported.

Witnesses said protests erupted in Port Sudan in the east, Atbaran in the north and Wad Madani in the south.

Demonstrators in the capital were playing drums, chanting revolutionary songs and raising the posters of people killed in a coup, according to witnesses.

On Sunday, the post-al-Bashir civilian leader, the prime minister Abdalla Hamdok, he resigned, leaving the military completely in command.

He was ousted in a coup on October 25 and arrested at home, but returned to government on November 21 under a deal signed with al-Burhan that the protest movement dismissed as a “betrayal” and a fig tree for military rule. .

In his resignation speech, Hamdo warned that Sudan was “threatening survival at a dangerous crossroads.”

On Tuesday, the United States, the European Union, Norway and the United Kingdom warned the military not to appoint Hamdok as his successor, saying “they will not accept a nominated prime minister or government without the involvement of a large number of civilian stakeholders”.

The protest movement has stressed that the government is completely civil to direct the transition to elections, a demand that has been rejected by generals who say they will only give power to an elected government.

Elections are scheduled for July 2023.

Al-Burhan, the head of the government’s Sovereign Council, said an independent cabinet with “specific tasks” would be formed as the executive branch of the transitional government.

The military, he said, would “support a democratic transition” until Sudan is able to hold free and fair elections.