Monday morning

when the Sudanese woke up after the call to prayer, telecommunications had been cut.

The day began in an eerie silence, recalling the darkest hours of a country which has already known three military dictatorships.

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Without the possibility of calling their relatives or of organizing themselves on social networks, the inhabitants of Khartoum half-opened their door or their window, then they went down to the corner of the street,"

Le Monde.

In small groups, they converged on the center of the capital.

Gradually, the sky was covered with black smoke.

In a few hours, they were thousands to march, spontaneously, slaloming between the barricades of bricks and burnt tires erected to slow the deployment of the security forces.

this time again,

 Le Monde Afrique, the Sudanese army opened fire on its population. Doctors from the Royal Care Hospital in Khartoum saw protesters arriving seriously injured in the late morning, the heads and upper parts of the body had been targeted. At midnight, a source within the Ministry of Health drew up the provisional assessment of the day, recalling that it could very quickly worsen: seven dead and 140 injured. (…) Yesterday afternoon, in the streets of Khartoum, the demonstrators did not wait for the result of international negotiations. The Sudanese Professionals Association and resistance committees as well as many unions have called for civil disobedience and a general strike. In the face of repression, the street chanted that the revolution would remain peaceful. Late at night,while communications were still not restored, some still shouted loudly: "Bullets do not kill, what kills is the silence imposed on the people". 

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the strong man of the country, General Abdel Fatah al-Burhan, during a river press conference yesterday in Khartoum, defended his coup and the army.

Accused of having "betrayed" the revolt of 2019, he claimed to have dissolved the authorities responsible for leading the transition to civilian power and elections, because, he said, "some were attacking the army", "an essential component of the transition".

In short,

Le Point Afrique, the military has been forced to intervene to resolve a growing political crisis which it believes could have led to a civil war.

"Yes, we arrested ministers and politicians, but not all of them," he added

Le Point Afrique, “

the words of Sudan's new strongman obviously did not reassure.

The Sudanese are not about to give in.

we must salute the courage and determination of the Sudanese people

The Sudanese people, who, far from giving in to fear and giving up, seem on the contrary ready to make the supreme sacrifice for their freedom. This is why this popular resistance sounds like an appeal from the international community to play its part by maintaining the pressure to put the Sudanese transition back on the rails of civil-military co-management which was to lead the country to pluralist elections. For this, he will have to make a point of ensuring that the timetable and the electoral calendar are respected. It is,

The Country, the only way for the international community, starting with the African Union, to restore its image somewhat after having shone by its softness in the Malian, Chadian and Guinean precedents which appear more or less as so many encouragements. for the Sudanese soldiers and other apprentice coup plotters still lurking in the shadows. 

The United States have already decided to suspend their aid to Sudan,"

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Washington had promised to support the transition to the tune of 700 million dollars.

A nice package that the country will struggle to do without.

(…) The home front is also mobilizing, so (…).

It is to be hoped,

, that the conjunction of all these internal and external pressures will force the general to retreat (…).