Thousands of people demonstrated Saturday in several Sudanese cities, including the capital, Khartoum, to criticize the «international interference» of the United Nations in the difficult negotiations following the coup d’état in the African country.
On October 25, 2021, leaders of an army faction — who were supported by several armed groups — overthrew the transitional government set up following an agreement between military and civil society forces after the fall of former dictator Omar Hassan al-Bashir in April 2019.
However, the current military leaders, with Abdelfatá al Burhan at the head, have announced an agreement in principle to cede power to a civilian government, but not before obtaining guarantees about its future.
Protests have been repeated in the city of Kosti, in the south of the country, in response to the Call for Sudan initiative of the religious Shaykh Al Tayeb.
The cleric explained, in comments reported by the portal Al Intibaha, that these marches «aim at defending national sovereignty against the interference of foreign embassies» and of the mediator assigned by the UN, the special representative Volker Perthes, one of the main objects of the anger of the demonstrators.
