Today, Monday, thousands of Sudanese demonstrated against the actions of the army chief, Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, and in continuation of their movements calling for civilian rule, while the police tried to disperse them.

While some protesters tried to approach the presidential palace in the center of the capital, security forces fired tear gas and sound bombs to force the protesters to retreat.

The AFP correspondent reported that the tear gas canisters fired by the police released gases of red, yellow and green colors that severely affect the eyes and breathing.

"This gas makes you feel short of breath and sore throat, but it will not stop us," protester Taqwa Muhammad told the agency.

Demonstrators demand civilian rule (Anatolia)

civil judgment

It was the resistance committees in residential neighborhoods that called for Monday's demonstrations, in order to restore civilian rule and hold those responsible for the killing of protesters to account. Monday's protests spread outside the capital.

In the city of Wad Madani, the capital of Gezira state, which is 186 kilometers south of Khartoum, eyewitnesses reported that about 4,000 demonstrators demonstrated, and headed towards the government headquarters, carrying Sudanese flags and pictures of the martyrs, and chanting "Power to the people and the military to the barracks."

In the state of Gedaref in the east of the country, two thousand people went out in the city center in response to the call of the resistance committees to demand civilian rule, according to eyewitnesses as well.

Demonstrations and accusations

Meanwhile, the police dispersed the demonstrations in the cities of Wad Madani (central), Port Sudan (east) and Al-Obeid (south) with tear gas canisters.

The United Nations had accused security forces of regularly firing live ammunition or using tear gas as lethal projectiles against protesters.

This week, the Senegalese UN human rights envoy Adama Dieng denounced these practices after a visit to Khartoum, calling on the authorities headed by Al-Burhan to "review their response" to the demonstrators.

He also called on the authorities to release the activists arrested after the coup and who are still imprisoned.

According to Deng, there are about 20 activists, most of them young people, who "never met a lawyer".

Sudanese street demands justice for victims of repression (French)

commands and demands

Al-Burhan admitted in an interview on state television earlier this month that officers used their "Kalashnikovs" against the demonstrators, stressing that these were personal initiatives that contradict orders.

The Sudanese street continues to demand justice for the victims of repression, as well as for the more than 250 protesters killed during the uprising that toppled former President Omar al-Bashir in 2019.

Since last October 25, Sudan has witnessed protests in response to exceptional measures taken by Al-Burhan, most notably the imposition of a state of emergency and the dissolution of the Sovereignty Councils and the Transitional Ministers, which political forces consider a "military coup" in exchange for the army's denial.

Prior to these measures, Sudan had been living since August 21, 2019, a 53-month transitional period that ends with holding elections in early 2024, during which power is shared by the army, civil forces and armed movements that signed a peace agreement with the government in 2020.