Total paralysis in Khartoum and the weapon of civil disobedience in the face of “emergency” .. Al Jazeera Net monitors the scene of the first day after the “Sudan coup”

KHARTOUM

- The signs of paralysis were evident in all aspects of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, today, Tuesday, a day after the Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Army, Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, declared a state of emergency in the country in what he called "correcting the course of the revolution."

On Monday, many political forces, union bodies and management committees called on the people for civil disobedience and a general strike to confront what they described as a "military coup".

Al-Burhan’s appearance in a press conference this afternoon did not change the situation in which the capital and its three cities (Khartoum, Khartoum North and Omdurman) woke up this morning, as the main streets and internal roads remained completely closed after the protesters put up barricades and burning tires to prevent traffic.

Paralysis is the master of the situation

The paralysis extended to include many public utilities, public transportation, and service institutions, including pharmacies, while schools and universities were forced to close their doors, and internet and telephone lines are still cut, despite Al-Burhan announcing today that it will gradually return.

Many radio stations left the broadcasting circle, while the official Sudan TV screen froze at one program and broadcast a group of songs since yesterday, after a group of joint forces stormed the TV buildings and expelled its employees, according to a statement issued by the dissolved Ministry of Culture and Information.

In the city of Bahri, the railway street is still open to traffic, while protesters are gathering from the North Halfaya area all the way to the Foundation Street. As for the inner streets of the neighborhoods, the resistance committees have set up roadblocks.

Hamed Idris - one of the protest leaders - told Al Jazeera Net that there is a wide response to calls for civil disobedience and a general strike, and added that protesters in the northern neighborhoods of Bahri are preparing to demonstrate, and many of them came to Al-Maouneh Street in the center of the city.

disable study

Al Jazeera Net monitored the return of school students to their homes in an unofficial announcement to suspend studies in response to calls for civil disobedience and a general strike at a time when the Ministry of Education did not issue a decision to suspend studies.

Ahmed Al Mubarak, director of one of Omdurman's schools, told Al Jazeera Net that the return of students to their homes is normal as a result of the inability of all students to reach schools in light of this situation. He described what is happening in the city of Omdurman as a complete paralysis of all state institutions and service sectors.

He indicated that he had not received an official invitation from the teachers' committee to strike, but despite that, all schools were closed, and one of the protesters confirmed to Al Jazeera Net that the movement was completely halted between the city of Omdurman and the cities of Khartoum and Khartoum North.

Sixty Street

On Sixtieth Street, one of the most important streets in the city of Khartoum, which witnessed unprecedented crowds in the demonstrations last Thursday (October 21 this year), the matter is not much different after pedestrians woke up to the closure of the entire road with barriers at all side intersections.

The head of the Sudanese National Alliance Party, Kamal Ismail, told Al Jazeera Net that the movement was completely paralyzed on Sixty Street, and added that the call for civil disobedience launched by the Forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change succeeded to a large extent on the first day.

He explained that "Freedom and Change" has set up a follow-up room, and that there are different ways of peaceful resistance to the declaration of a state of emergency.

Night demonstrations

Coinciding with the call for civil disobedience, the Sudanese Professionals Association called for the continuation of night demonstrations in the neighborhoods, and the capital, Khartoum and other cities witnessed mass demonstrations on Monday morning and continued until late at night, and the protesters managed to reach the vicinity of the General Command of the "Sudanese army".

According to medical reports, there were casualties among the dead and wounded among the protesters as a result of security forces firing live bullets at their gatherings.

In addition to the capital, Khartoum, many cities witnessed demonstrations condemning what they considered a "coup" carried out by the army led by Al-Burhan.

Among the most prominent demonstrations were the cities of El-Obeid in North Kordofan State, Port Sudan, the capital of the Red Sea State, and Madani, the capital of Gezira State.

Although the transportation movement from the cities of Sudan did not stop towards the capital, the center of the capital, Khartoum, witnessed an almost complete halt to the movement, while the manifestations of life were absent except for the opening of some bakeries and shops, and most of the gas stations closed their doors due to the acute shortage of fuel they are witnessing. country.