Sudanese police fired tear gas at demonstrators in front of the parliament building in Omdurman, the twin city of the capital Khartoum, demanding the handover of power to a civilian government.

The city and various Sudanese cities witnessed demonstrations raising slogans in support of the government, while supporters of the "Forces of Freedom and Change - National Charter Group" coalition continued their sit-in in front of the Republican Palace in Khartoum, for the sixth day in a row.

The protesters are calling for expanding the base of participation in the transitional period, commitment to implementing the provisions of the constitutional document, dissolving the current government, forming a government of competencies, and speeding up the formation of the transitional authority structures.

Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that a vehicle belonging to the riot police was set on fire in front of the parliament headquarters in the Sudanese city of Omdurman.

A demonstration was launched in Khartoum, called by the Central Council of the Forces for Freedom and Change, to support the government of Abdallah Hamdok;

Security forces have closed roads leading to government headquarters and major markets.

This morning, popular demonstrations took place in North Kordofan state, eastern Sudan, and the demonstrators raised slogans supporting civilian rule in Sudan.


demands and slogans

Al-Jazeera correspondent Al-Taher Al-Mardi said that large crowds supportive of civilian rule and rejecting any kind of military coup, took to the streets in various areas of the capital, Khartoum.

He stated that the demonstrators reject the dissolution of the government, and see that any such decision represents part of a conspiracy between the military component and some remnants of the former regime to bring down the revolution.

He said that they also raised slogans calling for the formation of an immediate legislative council that can achieve the goals of the revolution, and the formation of an international investigation committee in the case of the sit-in dispersal, and they also demand the protection of the committee to dismantle the regime.

He added that the demonstrators see the current sit-in in front of the palace as an attempt to abort the revolution and confront the civil movement, and that some of them demanded the dissolution of the partnership with the military component.

In another development, Sudanese Finance Minister Jibril Ibrahim said that some mandates had been received by the demonstrators.

For its part, the Sudanese Professionals Association said that the attack on the peaceful processions is a blatant declaration by the current authority of its hostility to the revolution and revolutionaries, stressing that there is no retreat from the streets until the handover of power.

These demonstrations come on the anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the first military government in Sudan in 1964. Various political forces called for a protest on this day, to express different political demands.

Demonstrations in other cities

The Darfur region also witnessed demonstrations demanding the handover of power in Sudan to the civilian component.

The demonstrators chanted slogans warning against undermining civilian rule, and against a military coup against power.

These demonstrations come within the framework of what is known as the twenty-first million of October to support the civil transition in Sudan.

In the city of Port Sudan, northeastern Sudan, processions took place in which groups of revolutionary forces participated, in response to the call of the Central Council, to demand the civil state and the completion of the institutions of the transitional authority.

The Beja Optical Council and the Independent Amaudiya organized a demonstration in front of the southern port gate in Port Sudan, northeastern Sudan.

The demonstrators renewed their demands to cancel the eastern path of Sudan in the Juba negotiations, to dissolve the government, and to form a government of non-partisan competencies.


An invitation to demonstrate and a desire to make the transition a success

Yesterday, Wednesday, the Sudanese Professionals Association called on all sectors to actively participate in the millions (demonstrations) today, Thursday.

The statement stressed the need for an integrated democratic transformation because the people are tired of the chain of individual rule, according to the statement.

Prior to the demonstrations, members of the army closed the streets with concrete barriers and barbed wire to prevent any possible entry of demonstrators to the vicinity of the General Command.

Armored military vehicles, along with dozens of heavily armed soldiers, were also deployed in the streets leading to the army headquarters.

On the other hand, the head of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereign Council, Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, said that the armed forces and the civilian component are keen on the success of the transitional period, leading to the formation of an elected civilian government that meets the aspirations of the Sudanese people.

Al-Burhan stressed, during his meeting - in Khartoum - with the Minister of African Affairs in the British Foreign Office, Vicky Ford, the commitment to the constitutional document, and the preservation of the partnership between the military and civilian components.

The mechanism of the Sudanese Prime Minister's initiative to resolve the crisis confirmed the continuation of the Sudanese revolution by rallying the masses around its slogans to complete the democratic transition.

In a statement, the Mechanism expressed its hope that the Sudanese people would continue the path of struggle and their legitimate aspirations in building the national state, and called on the police forces to play their role in securing the demonstrations scheduled for Thursday.