The security forces, which grinds the Sudanese capital en masse, have shot tearful grenades on different processions.
Le Monde with AFP
Braving the repression that has already done twenty-four dead and a complete cut of communications, protesters parade by thousands, Wednesday, November 17, in Khartoum, Sudan, against the military coup.
From the Putsch of October 25, activists have learned to mobilize via SMS rather than social networks. But since Wednesday, mid-day, they can not even write on their phones or be called. Shortly after this lead screed fell on this country in East African, one of the poorest in the world, the security forces, which quadrly khartoum en masse, shot tearful grenades on different processions. . Witnesses reported “injured” while journalists from the France-Presse agency saw protesters collapse after inhaling tear gas.
While no political solution seems to be in sight after the boost that has stopped a folding transition from the wing for months, Washington has dispatched an emissar. Molly Phee, Deputy Secretary of State for African Affairs, has done in recent days the shuttle between civilians – like the Prime Minister, Abdallah Hamdok, still in supervised residence – and military, including General Abdel Fattah Al-Bourhane, for Attempting to revive the democratic transition to Sudan, released in 2019 from a quasi military dictatorship since independence in 1956.
At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, where he started an African tour, US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said Sudan will find the support and assistance of the international community. The “legitimacy” of the government is restored. “It is vital that the transition regains the legitimacy it had (…) if the army puts on this train on the rails and does the necessary, I think that the support of the international community, which was very strong, can resume . “
But the leader of the army seems not to consider returning back: he recently renamed the head of the highest institution of the transition, the Council of Sovereignty, and renewed all military members or Proarmed, replacing only four partisan members with a completely civilian power by other civilians, apolitical. “Not to the military power” and “the people chose civilians”, answered the demonstrators on Wednesday, who consputed General Bourhane, accused of being a supporter of the former regime, an alliance between military and Islamists in power. For thirty years.
Arrests up to the hospitals
To stem the movement, the raids continue and hundreds of activists, passersby or journalists were arrested, like the leader of the office of Al-Jazeera, Al-Moussalami Al-Kabbachi, finally released on Tuesday . According to a union of prémer democracy, the security forces are even going so far as to stop doctors and wounded in capital hospitals.