Sudan.. 30 demonstrators were injured in clashes with the police

A Sudanese medical source told Al-Jazeera that about 30 demonstrators were injured Thursday in clashes with police forces in the capital, Khartoum, adding that ambulance crews evacuated dozens of wounded people during the clashes.

Sudanese police forces fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators who went out in Bahri, north of Khartoum, to demand an end to "military rule" and the formation of a civilian government. The demonstrators also expressed their rejection of the measures taken by the army commander and head of the Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, on October 25 of the year. Past.

For its part, Agence France-Presse indicated that Thursday's demonstration is the latest since Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, commander of the army, assumed power about a year ago and overthrew the civilian government that was formed after the overthrow of former President Omar al-Bashir in 2019, and shared power with the army.

Weekly demonstrations

The protests are repeated on a weekly basis, and the authorities confront them with violence, which left 119 people dead, according to what the agency quoted from the Central Doctors Committee, in parallel with the intensification of the economic crisis and the rise in ethnic strife.

On Wednesday in Khartoum, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called for restraint, and demanded that the security forces respect human rights and "not view the demonstrators as opponents."

And the French Press Agency indicates that the Freedom and Change Alliance is currently negotiating with the army an agreement to get out of the crisis based on a new proposal that was drafted by the Bar Association.

The coalition announced on Wednesday that it had agreed to a two-stage agreement based on this initiative, which specifically provides for the formation of a civilian government, provided that the issue of transitional justice and reform of the military institution will be discussed later.

In turn, Al-Burhan said, "A document was presented to us, and we made observations on it to preserve the dignity and independence of the army," warning political parties against "interference in the army," as he said.