Since General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the army, led a coup on October 25, the country continues to sink into violence.
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Another day of violence, Monday, January 17, in Sudan. Seven protesters were killed during the mobilizations against the military power. Braving a tight security check and troops equipped with heavy weapons, thousands of Sudanese again chanted “The soldiers in the barracks” and “Civil Power” trying to approach the presidential palace in Khartoum, or elsewhere in the country.
In the capital, the supporters of a civil power in a country that emerged in 2019 from three decades of military-Islamist dictatorship, came under “real ammunition” fire, but also a rain of tear gas and sound grenades and cannon fire. water, say doctors.
In all, since the October 25 putsch, 71 demonstrators have been killed. The police, for their part, assure that one of their generals was stabbed to death during recent demonstrations.
Since General Burhane, head of the army, reshuffled the cards with his coup, the country has continued to sink into violence. The police even go so far as to attack the wounded and doctors in hospitals, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).