The authorities have closed bridges leading to the center of the capital, in anticipation of mobilization Sunday afternoon against the army, which suspended the democratic transition.
Le Monde
In the center of Khartoum Sunday morning December 19th, the streets were empty, found a journalist from France-Press (AFP). Three years after the beginning of the revolution in Sudan who overthrown Omar Al-Bachir after thirty years of dictatorship, supporters of a civilian regime prepare to go down on the street Sunday afternoon against the army, which suspended the army, which suspended the army democratic transition.
The stores have closed their doors while riding police forces have deployed at major crossroads. In the morning, the authorities placed concrete blocks on several bridges connecting the center of the capital to the suburbs of Omdourman and Bahri, to the west and north of Khartoum.
Armed soldiers in vehicles were also positioned near bridges with machine guns placed on some of them. All roads surrounding the army headquarters, in the city center, were closed with armed vehicles, barbed wires and concrete barriers.
“Fall of the country in the abyss”
On December 19, 2018, in the face of the economic marasm in which Sudan was immersed, under the international embargo, hundreds of thousands of Sudanese had descended into the street, forcing the army to separate the dictator four months later. If the Sudanese had chosen that day, it was in 1955 on the same date, the Parliament of the country (always under British guitelle) proclaimed independence.
Since then, the country has been trying to carry out its democratic transition, but the military coup of October 25 of General Abdel Fattah Al-Bourhane has led to a new repression, making 45 dead and hundreds of wounded.
On Saturday, on the eve of this event called by political and union organizations, the Prime Minister, Abdallah Hamdok, warned the population in a speech against the “drop of the country in the abyss”. “We are facing today in a major regression in the march of our revolution that threatens the country’s security, unity and stability and may lead the state in an abyss that will leave neither homeland nor revolution”, Hamdok said.
Since the coup, the army restored the civilian prime minister and promised free elections in July 2023, but has still not made up of government. Opposite, the Procivils also accuse Mr. Hamdok de “TRAHISON”.