Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that the Beja and Al-Amoudiya offices in eastern Sudan closed today, Thursday, Port Sudan International Airport, as part of the escalation of protests, in rejection of the "East track" included in the peace agreement signed in Juba on the third of last October.
The leader and legal advisor to the "Supreme Council of Beja Opticals" Ahmed Musa told Anadolu Agency, "Port Sudan airport has been closed as a response to the central government's slowness in finding urgent and immediate solutions to the issue of eastern Sudan."
The council complains about the marginalization of the eastern regions, and demands the cancellation of the process, and the establishment of a national conference for eastern issues, which will result in the approval of development projects in it.
About a week ago, the council closed the seaports and the road linking Port Sudan and a number of cities in Sudan, including the capital, Khartoum, in addition to cutting the Khartoum-Port Sudan railway.
This escalating step comes to pressure the government to implement a number of political demands;
Including the dismissal of the government and the formation of a military council in which all regions of the country are represented.
Since August 21, 2019, Sudan has been going through a 53-month transitional period that ends with elections in early 2024, during which power is shared by the army, civilian forces and the armed movements that signed the peace agreement.
Bringing peace and achieving development is among the top priorities of Abdullah Hamdok’s government, which has been in place since the army leadership - on April 11, 2019 - dismissed Omar al-Bashir from the presidency (1989-2019), under pressure from popular protests denouncing the deteriorating economic conditions.