KHARTOUM — Sudanese police fired tear
gas Monday to disperse hundreds of
protesters who rallied near the presidential
palace in Khartoum demanding civilian rule, witnesses said.
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It was the latest rally in recent weeks by
Sudanese opposed to a military-dominated government in the country where top general
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan seized power in an October coup.
Monday's protesters in Khartoum waved
Sudanese flags and changed "civilian is the people's choice" as well
as "the people are stronger.”
Witnesses said protests were also underway
in parts of eastern Sudan, including Kassala and Gadaref states.
"Protesters are in the center of the
city and are chanting 'no to military rule'," Kassala resident Mohammed
Idriss told AFP.
Speaking from Gadaref, resident Amal Hussein
said around 600 protesters rallied there, where they also waved Sudanese flags
and chanted slogans demanding civilian rule.
Following the October 25 coup, previous
protests were met by a violent crackdown that left 44 people killed and
hundreds wounded, mostly by bullets, according to a pro-democracy doctors'
union.
On that day Burhan seized power and detained
Prime Minister
Abdalla Hamdok but reinstated him in a deal signed on November
21 after international condemnation and mass protests.
Critics lambasted the agreement and
pro-democracy activists vowed to maintain pressure on the military-civilian
authority.
Burhan has insisted that the military
takeover was "not a coup" but a step "to rectify the
transition" towards full democracy that started with the 2019 ouster of
autocratic president Omar al-Bashir.
He has pledged to lead Sudan to "free
and transparent elections" in July 2023.
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