Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that the Sudanese police fired tear gas near the "Al-Mak Nimr" bridge, to disperse the protesters who had closed the bridge in addition to a number of main roads in the capital, Khartoum.
In an escalating step, groups of protesters - in front of the Republican Palace in Khartoum on Sunday morning - closed a number of main roads and bridges in the capital.
The escalation comes a day after the US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Jeffrey Feltman, met with the country's transitional partners, and conflicting statements were issued that reflected the lack of agreement on a solution to the ongoing crisis.
Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that the protesters, supporters of the Alliance of Freedom and Change Forces - the National Charter Group, who demand the dissolution of the government and the expansion of participation in the arrangements for the transitional period, closed the streets of Al-Qasr, Al-Jamaa and the Nile in whole or in part, which is one of the most important roads in Khartoum.
The reporter added that the closure also included the Al-Mak Nimr Bridge linking the center of Khartoum with the city of Khartoum North, and the protesters set fire to tires on Nile Street, while the police deployed extensively in the side streets.
The closure of the roads led to severe congestion in the movement of cars in most of the streets of the capital, especially on the main roads leading to the center of Khartoum.
Eyewitnesses reported that the police deployed extensively in the side streets in central Khartoum, coinciding with the closure of roads and the Mak Nimr Bridge.
Feltman Encounters
Feltman called, during his meeting with the Chairman of the Transitional Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok, to work together to cross the transitional phase towards its goals.
He called for not excluding any of the parties to the political process in Sudan, according to a statement issued by the Sovereignty Council on the meeting.
Feltman said during the meeting, which took place in the presence of the Vice-President of the Sovereignty Council, Muhammad Hamdan Hemedti, that the differences in the positions of the political forces are the reason for the delay in the formation of the Legislative Council, the Constitutional Court, the Electoral Commission, the structures of transitional justice and the High Judicial Council.
The US envoy stressed that the transition will not take place safely without the establishment of these institutions.
For his part, Al-Burhan stressed - according to the statement - the need to return to the platform for establishing the forces of freedom and change, and to resort to the constitutional document and the Juba Agreement.
Al-Burhan called for the need to expand the political participation of all national forces, except for the dissolved National Congress Party, and said that the executive government cannot be monopolized by certain parties that do not represent all sects of the Sudanese people, according to the statement.
Meanwhile, a statement issued by the Sudanese Cabinet said that Hamdok and Feltman discussed the current political crisis in the country, and ways to get out of it by adhering to the constitutional document, the Juba Agreement for Peace in Sudan, and the current partnership.
dissolution of the government
In a related context, the leader of the Forces for Freedom and Change - the National Charter, Ismail Khamis Jalab, stressed that he would not give up on dissolving the government, and warned - in a speech in front of the sit-in on Saturday - that if the government is not dissolved, "we will mobilize people from the states to Khartoum."
In a press conference held by the Alliance of Freedom and Change Forces-Central Council Group, Yasser Arman, a leader in the coalition, stressed that the dissolution of the transitional government will not take place under orders from inside or outside, and that no one can impose a military rule.
Arman affirmed the support of the Central Council group of Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok, and demanded the necessity of adhering to the institutions established by the constitutional document and the peace agreement.
For his part, the leader of the Forces of Freedom and Change-Central Council Group, Muhammad Naji Al-Asam, affirmed the group's adherence to the tasks mentioned in the constitutional document, including handing over the presidency of the Sovereignty Council to civilians.
There were conflicting statements from Khartoum yesterday, Saturday, regarding a supposed agreement to dissolve the Sovereignty Council and the Council of Ministers, to get out of the current political crisis.
breaking into the news agency
In a related context, the Ministry of Culture and Information condemned the attempt to storm the headquarters of the Sudan News Agency yesterday, Saturday, and prevented the holding of a press conference for the Forces of Freedom and Change-Central Council Group, as well as the attempt to close the southern entrance to the ministry.
For its part, the Forces for Freedom and Change - the National Charter Group said that the group that stormed the headquarters of the Sudan News Agency, had nothing to do with the presidential palace sit-in.
And she explained in a statement that she calls for respecting the opinion and the other opinion and the argument, and strongly condemns the repression and harassment of others, and hopes that such extraneous practices will not occur in Sudanese society.
The National Pact group confirmed that there is no personal dispute between it and the other group, the Central Council, but rather a difference of opinions.
Yesterday, Saturday, supporters of the Forces for Freedom and Change-National Charter Group were accused of closing the building of the Ministry of Culture and Information in Khartoum and placing concrete barriers in front of its doors, in conjunction with the storming of the headquarters of the Sudanese News Agency.
The protesters demanded that the media be for all Sudanese without bias towards parties at the expense of others, as they put it.