Sudan: Islamists demonstrate in Khartoum against UN mediation
Sudanese demonstrators gather to protest against United Nations mediation, in front of the UN headquarters in the Manshiya district of the capital Khartoum, on October 29, 2022. AFP - EBRAHIM HAMID
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In Sudan, several thousand Islamist demonstrators, hostile to the UN and to any international mediation in the political crisis in the country, marched through the streets of the capital Khartoum, this Saturday, October 29.
This rally, which attacked in particular the United Nations envoy Volker Perthes, held to the call of religious parties and took up slogans from the dictatorship of former President Omar al-Bashir which , since the coup of October 25, 2021, has returned to grace, two and a half years after being ousted from power.
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The speakers followed one another on Saturday all afternoon in front of the UN headquarters in Khartoum.
In the loudspeakers, they revived old slogans, denouncing "foreign interference" and demanding "Islamic power".
And on the signs was a target, whose effigy was even burned: Volker Perthes, the UN special envoy to Sudan, who for months has been trying to find, with political and military actors, a way out. negotiated crisis to the deadlocked situation in the country.
This demonstration took place under the watchful eye of the security forces.
No hindrance, no tear gas canister, no violent charge, unlike other times, when it is the revolutionary opposition that demonstrates.
The context must be taken into account: for some time, rumors have been circulating insistently of an imminent agreement, thanks to the efforts of Volker Perthes, between the Forces of Freedom and Change, the coalition of the civil opposition, and the military, on the basis of a transition charter proposed by the Sudanese Bar Association.
However, the Islamists, as well as the cadres of Omar al-Bashir's party, are not only among those who welcomed General al-Burhan's coup d'etat, while reintegrating into the state apparatus, but also who deny the opposition the right to lead the country.
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