Tens of thousands of people are demonstrating in Sudan against the army chief and president of the Sovereign Transitional Council, Abdelfatá al Burhan, following the signing of the agreement with the civilian coalition Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) to end the crisis resulting from the October coup d’état.
The rallies took place in the capital, Khartoum, but also in Atbara, Gadarif, Al Geneina and Madani, where thousands of people demanded that the army leave power and return to the barracks. These groups were dispersed by the police with tear gas bombs and rubber bullets, according to Radio France International.
The FFC is part of the opposition to the Transitional Government and is one of the main groups behind the demonstrations that ended with the departure from power in 2019 of the then president, Omar Hassan al Bashir.
This week they announced the signing of a ‘framework agreement’ within ten days to resolve the crisis, however, protesters from the Resistance Committees claim that this does not solve the political impasse and wonder at what price the coalition has been sold, according to the same source.
«The ‘framework agreement’ includes all the necessary mechanisms to end the coup and establish a democratic civil authority,» he said, before assuring that this agreement «will be signed in ten days» and adding that «the second phase involves the development of the agreement with the participation of a broad sector of the public and the revolutionary forces», they said at the press conference.
Al Burhan led in October 2021 a new coup d’état that ousted the transitional prime minister, Abdallah Hamdok, appointed after an agreement between the previous military junta, which emerged after the 2019 coup against Al Bashir, and various civil organizations and opposition political formations.
