The Sudanese security forces fired, Tuesday, November 30, in Khartoum, tear gas canisters at thousands of demonstrators again demanding a transfer to civilians only of the power currently dominated by the military.

Police officers armed with "whips", according to witnesses, also chased demonstrators near the presidential palace, the former HQ of dictator Omar al-Bashir overthrown by the army under the pressure of a popular revolt in 2019 and since then became the seat of the transitional authorities headed by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, author of the October 25 putsch.

That day, Sudan entered the unknown and the crackdown on anti-coup protests left 43 dead and hundreds injured, according to a pro-democracy doctors' union.

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Almost a month after the putsch, an agreement was signed on November 21 at the highest level: civilian Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, himself detained and then placed under house arrest, returned to his post, and the control of the army and its leader, General Burhane, was consecrated, at least until the promised elections in July 2023.

Since November 22, no demonstrator has been killed.

A protester succumbed Tuesday to "beatings with sticks on the skull by the security forces" received previously, according to the union of doctors.

"I am demonstrating to demand the fall of military power"

Many civil society organizations, ministers ousted by the putsch and demonstrators continue to denounce the agreement of November 21, seen by the international community as a first step towards a return to democracy.

Thousands of demonstrators chanted again, Tuesday in Khartoum, "No partnership, No negotiation" or "That the soldiers return to their barracks".

"I am demonstrating to demand the fall of military power," Mohamed Alaeddine, a protester told AFP.

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For the Association of Sudanese Professionals (APS), one of the spearheads of the 2019 revolt, the new demonstration is "a clear response to the senseless gesture of the putschists".

The APS accuses the army and Abdallah Hamdok, now shouted as a "traitor" by the street, of "reproducing the old regime and its corruption", while Sudan emerged two years ago from thirty years of dictatorship military-Islamist of General Bashir, now in prison.

Since the putsch, observe the observers, purges carried out at a run rate have allowed the army to reinstall figures of the Bashir regime.

Abdallah Hamdok has said he wants to review all these appointments, but recent changes in the security apparatus seem to show that the army retains control over the appointments.

With AFP

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