Sudan: Protesters accuse power of fueling tribal violence

Khartoum (Sudan), July 17: new demonstration of protest against the confiscation of power by the military.

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Sudanese demonstrators met again in the streets of Khartoum and the main cities of the country this Sunday, July 17.

As with every march, for months, they have been dispersed by tear gas canister fire.

In addition to their usual demands asking for the departure of the military in power, the demonstrators this time seized on the problem of tribal violence which has caused hundreds of deaths since the beginning of the year, throughout the country.

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As always, the portraits of the demonstrators

killed during the previous marches

were waved in the streets of the country, but on Sunday other slogans resounded in the ranks of the protesters like " 

No to tribalism, no to racism, we are a family !

 ".

As at least

60 people died over the weekend

in local clashes in the southeastern Blue Nile state, protesters in Khartoum and major cities have expressed solidarity with the victims.

According to them, the resurgence of tribal violence in recent months is not unrelated to the policy pursued by the coup authorities. 

For the Sudanese researcher

Kholood Khair,

director of the Confluence Advisory institute, it is “the mining interests of certain members of power, in particular the number 2 General Hemedti, which are at the origin of the return of conflicts”.

Throughout the day, street orators proclaimed the responsibilities of the putschists in this violence;

the military, they say, use ethnic rivalries to distribute the wealth of these regions to the detriment of the local populations... As a reminder, the country has significant reserves of iron, copper, manganese and especially gold .

Khartoum has become in a few years the

third African gold producer.

Also to listen

: in Sudan, the devastating effects of gold mining on the populations

To show their solidarity with the people of the Blue Nile, protesters gathered to donate blood at Madani Hospital where the injured are being treated.

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