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Careful organisation lies behind Sudan’s massive sit-in protests, AU, US back protesters

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators massed around a sit-in outside the Sudanese Ministry of Defence on Friday in the latest round of protests to push for civilian rule since Omar al-Bashir’s ouster.


Video: https://youtu.be/Ly9NXDpMYTQ?t=3

African Union(AU) and the the United States have separately reiterated calls for the military to handover power to a civilian-led transition body saying they supported what the Sudanese people wanted.

US in its latest statement on the post-Bashir crisis  issued by the Department of State on Thursday – the same day that a massive protest rocked the capital, Khartoum.

The AU has gave a stern warning to the Transitional Military Council over possible expulsion from the continental bloc.

Ousted president Omar al-Bashir has been transferred to a maximum security prison in Khartoum.

Two of his brothers have also been detained according to the military as part of efforts to “uproot symbols of the regime.”


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