Coordination groups opposed to military rule in Sudan called for a million-strong demonstration today, Monday, which they said will head to the presidential palace in the center of the capital, and this comes after night demonstrations witnessed in other cities on Sunday.

The "Coordination of the Khartoum Resistance Committees" said in a statement that this million will be under the slogan "Restoring the dignity of teachers," adding that it "will renew our pledge to the streets that we have known and experienced, and our cheers lead us towards the presidential palace."

The resistance committees of the cities of Kassala (east), Madani (central) and Port Sudan (east) also announced their exit from those demonstrations.

In turn, the Sudanese Teachers' Committee (syndicate) announced its welcome to that million, confirming its participation in it.

"We will be present in these processions called for by the resistance committees, and we urge teachers to actively participate," she said in a statement.

night demonstrations

The Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and the city of Wad Madani, witnessed nightly demonstrations on Sunday, calling for a return to civilian rule.

Anadolu Agency quoted eyewitnesses as saying that dozens of demonstrators took to the streets on Sunday evening in a number of neighborhoods in the three Sudanese capital, Khartoum, Khartoum North and Omdurman, chanting slogans calling for the city of the state.

In the city of Wad Madani, in the state of Al-Jazirah (central), dozens of people came out in several neighborhoods, also calling for "a complete civilization of the state", according to the so-called Coordination of the Civil Resistance Committees.

Wad Madani Coordination posted on its Facebook page, videos of the demonstrations tonight in the city.


And since last October 25, the country has witnessed protests in response to exceptional measures taken by the army chief, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, most notably the imposition of a state of emergency and the dissolution of the Sovereignty Councils and the Transitional Ministers.

Those who reject Al-Burhan's procedures say that they represent a "coup" against a transitional phase that began on August 21, 2019, and is supposed to end with 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, while Al-Burhan rejects Describe what happened to the coup.

Diplomatic move

Politically, Khartoum witnessed yesterday, Sunday, consultations conducted by Volker Peretz, head of the United Nations Integrated Mission to Support the Transition in Sudan (UNITAMS) and the African Union envoy, Mohamed El-Hassan Ould Lebat, with African ambassadors in the country and representatives of two Sudanese parties, to discuss solutions to the crisis.

A statement from the mission said, "The head of the United Nations mission and the African Union Special Envoy briefed the African ambassadors on the efforts of the United Nations, the African Union, and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in East Africa (IGAD) in the political process inside Sudan.

On March 7, the UNITAMS mission announced that it had established a joint coordination mechanism with the African Union to "unify their efforts and work together on the ground, within the framework of international efforts to resolve the crisis in the country."

And between January 8 and February 10, the UN mission held preliminary consultations with the parties to the Sudanese crisis, to discuss ways to get out of the current crisis.