In the headlines: repression intensifies in Sudan

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The Sudanese army has been deployed in the city of Khartoum since Monday, October 25 to try to appease the dispute after the coup.

State institutions were purged by the army of protesters.

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By: Frédéric Couteau Follow

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How many more deaths for General Abdel Fattah Al-Bourhane and his men to put an end to the butchery they launched against civilians who demand a final withdrawal of the military from the political scene?" 

», Asks

WakatSéra

.

"

 In any case, the macabre accounts continue to swell in a Sudan which experienced, yesterday Wednesday, its deadliest day since the October 25 coup.

At least fifteen demonstrators remained on the floor, and the results are only provisional.

Faced with pro-democracy activists more determined than ever to recover the popular revolution that was stolen from them, generals rise up who put down any hint of rebellion in the blood.

With in their pay, a police force, an army, a militia, rapid support forces and intelligence services on a war footing (…).

And everything takes place in an almost total closed door, the soldiers having taken the care to cut the telephone communications and the Internet network.

 "

Al-Bourhane deaf to the Americans

The Sudanese soldiers who remain deaf in the face of calls from American diplomacy… This is what

Le Monde Afrique points out 

. “ 

While no political solution seems in sight after the coup, the United States has stepped up its appeals. After the sanctions, Washington has announced that it is ready to support Sudan again, if 'the army puts the [transition] train back on track',

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned during a visit to Nairobi, Kenya. His envoy to Khartoum in recent days, the Deputy Secretary of State for African Affairs, Molly Phee, has shuttled between civilians - like Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok still under house arrest - and soldiers, in particular General Al-Bourhane . Objective: to try to relaunch the democratic transition project in Sudan (…). But,

notes

Le Monde Afrique

,

the head of the army does not seem to be considering going back: he has returned to the head of the highest institution of the transition, the sovereignty council.

And has renewed all its military or pro-army members, replacing only four members who support an entirely civilian power with other civilians, apolitical.

 "

Terrorism: the Burkinabé army reacts

Also on the front page, in Burkina Faso, faced with the rise of terrorist groups, the army is counter-attacking ...

 The news brings balm to the heart and rekindles hopes,

points

Today

in Ouagadougou.

Two days after the Inata attack which, according to a final official report, left 53 dead (49 gendarmes and 4 civilians), the National Armed Forces struck a blow in the Boucle du Mouhoun region.

According to several corroborating sources, the Sahel Rapid Action, Surveillance and Intervention Group of the gendarmerie and the Toéni detachment yesterday conducted a joint operation on a terrorist base in the said locality.

More than 90 terrorists were reportedly neutralized during this operation.

 "

Angry Kaboré

Also yesterday, President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré spoke at the end of the Council of Ministers. Four days after the attack on Inata's gendarmerie post, the Burkinabé president blasted, notes

L'Observateur Paalga

, " 

the major malfunctions in terms of food, logistics and premiums

which affect the proper functioning of armed forces. 'This is unacceptable and this is why I understand very well the different reactions of anger which are expressed here and there.

 "

With these words, continues

L'Observateur Paalga

, “ 

the Head of State accredits to a certain extent certain information which circulated on social networks, in particular reporting a disruption in the food supply of the targeted detachment, forcing the pandores, starving, to slaughter the animals that roamed around their camp to survive.

We felt a muffled anger in the president's voice,

again points out the Ouagalais daily.

(…)

The commander of the first gendarmerie region and the commander of the northern sector group have already been relieved of their duties.

And we wait for other berets to fall.

 "

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