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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New day of violence, Monday, January 17, in Sudan: the troops, who took out heavy weapons, fire tear gas canisters against thousands of demonstrators hostile to military power and heading towards the presidential palace. The supporters of a civil power in this country which emerged in 2019 from three decades of military-Islamist dictatorship have again mobilized, defying the security forces deployed en masse in the capital.
Above their vehicles, heavy weapons and large-caliber machine guns were visible, noted an AFP journalist, while the repression has already left 64 dead in the ranks of the demonstrators.
If the security forces square Khartoum and its suburbs, on the other hand, and for the first time, they do not block all the bridges connecting the Sudanese capital to its suburbs on the other bank of the Nile. In one of them, Omdurman, demonstrators were burning tires and setting up barricades to cut off roads, a witness told AFP.
Since General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the army, led a coup on October 25, the country continues to sink into violence. A police general was stabbed to death during recent protests, while security forces fire, sometimes with live ammunition, at protesters and go so far as to attack injured people and doctors in hospitals, according to the World Organization health (WHO).