Hundreds of demonstrators marched Thursday, October 27 in several districts of Khartoum to denounce the military power installed by a putsch a year ago and to demand justice for the victims of the repression, noted an AFP journalist.
In Khartoum-Nord, the north-eastern suburbs of the Sudanese capital, around 500 demonstrators were busy setting up barricades, the modus operandi of the anti-coup since the head of the army, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, interrupted the democratic transition in the country on October 25, 2021.
“No to military power”
Under Sudanese flags, they shouted “The soldiers in the barracks“, claiming a civilian power in a country almost always under the thumb of generals since its independence in 1966. security in one year.
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Tuesday, for the first anniversary of the putsch, the pro-democracies had managed to mobilize thousands of Sudanese in all the cities of the country to say “no to military power“. Sudan, one of the poorest countries in the world, has continued to sink into political and economic crisis for a year, while the fall in 2019 of dictator Omar al-Bashir had given hope for a renewal.