The Teachers’ Union denounced, Sunday, the violence committed by the security forces and reports several arrests of protesters in its ranks, but did not deplore wounded.
Le Monde with AFP
The security forces dispersed, Sunday, November 7, protesters in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, on the first day of a new campaign of civil disobedience against the army, in power since its coup d’etat of 25 October.
Since the dissolution, that day, by General Abdel Fattah al-Bourhane of all the institutions of the country and the arrest of almost all civilians with whom he shared the power, the street entered In resistance.
Sunday, dozens of teachers have once again converged to the Ministry of Education for “a silent protest against the decisions of General Al-Bourhane,” explained to the France-Presse Mohammed al-Amine, Professor of Geography. “The police arrived and pulled tearful grenades on us as we just get there with our pancarts” no to the military regime “,” he added. The Teachers’ Union denounced the violence and reports several arrests of protesters in its ranks, but did not deplore wounded.
Blocked roads and closed stores
Before this event, young people had blocked roads with bricks and paved, while shops had remained closed. “There is less movement in the streets, but the blockage is not total,” said a witness at Omdourman, Khartoum Twin City.
Sudanese want to be heard while in camera, far from the street, the negotiations are continuing between military, civilian and international and international mediator leaders to find a solution to the crisis.
So far, however, the discussions did not lead to the formation of a government or the return of that deceived by General Al-Bourhane, or even to the adoption of a clear position on the recovery or not of the democratic transition launched at the fall of the dictator Omar Al-Bachir, in 2019.
For the prescribed organizations at the forefront of the “Revolution” against General Al-Bachir, the line is clear: “no dialogue, no negotiation, no partnership” with the army, they claim in Releases broadcast by SMS, internet being blocked for fourteen days.
In 2019, senior grades and civilian civilians had decided to manage the transition together together; Today, many believe that such a partnership is now impossible.
The army wants a new government
The Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, in supervised residence, and his rare freedom ministers continue to plead the return to the front October 25; But the army, it wants a new government more inclined to safeguard its political and economic interests, believe experts.
Arab League negotiators, South Sudan, the United Nations (UN) multiply meetings with both camps, but their task is complicated: UN representative in Sudan, Volker Perthes Thursday, after that civilian politicians come to meet him at his HQ were arrested by the army on the foot of the door.
The coup and repression – which killed fourteen protesters, according to doctors – have already earned Sudan a series of convictions abroad, its suspension of the African Union and considerable cuts in the International aid.
Arab countries seem divided. Wednesday, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two countries close to the Sudanese military, called for the “immediate restoration” of the civilian government, but Egypt, great affecting neighbor, has not yet positioned.