The capital Khartoum and other Sudanese cities on Thursday witnessed new demonstrations in rejection of the framework agreement signed between the military component of the authority and civilian forces.
According to the Anadolu correspondent and eyewitnesses, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in the capital Khartoum and the cities of Omdurman (west), Bahri (north), Madani (center), Port Sudan, Gedaref and Kassala (east).
The demonstrations came at the call of the "Coordination of Resistance Committees" (activists), political parties and professional bodies, in rejection of the framework agreement signed between the military component of the authority and civilian forces.
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The "resistance committees" were formed in cities and villages after the outbreak of the December 19, 2018 protests, and had the largest role in managing demonstrations in neighborhoods and cities until the army leadership removed then-President Omar al-Bashir on April 11, 2019.
The Anadolu correspondent monitored the deployment of military vehicles in the vicinity of the presidential palace, and a security deployment in the center of the capital, Khartoum.
The security authorities closed the "King Nimr" bridge linking Khartoum and the city of Bahri (north), to avoid the arrival of demonstrators to the vicinity of the presidential palace.
The demonstrators, carrying national flags, chanted slogans "against" to the military and the Forces of Freedom and Change (the former ruling coalition), and demanded full civilian rule.
They held placards reading "Civil struggle continues", "No to military rule", "Full civilian state", "No to political settlement", "No to framework agreement" and "Yes to democratic civilian rule".
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— Monem Omar (@MonemOmar3) April 6, 2023
On Wednesday evening, the forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change announced the postponement of the signing of the final political agreement between the Sudanese parties, which was scheduled for Thursday, the sixth of April, due to joint talks between the military parties.
On March 29, the "Security and Military Reform" conference in Khartoum concluded the last conference of the final phase of the political agreement, and army leaders were absent due to disagreements over the integration of the Rapid Support Forces into the army, which later announced its commitment to the political process and aspiration to complete the "integration processes" within it.
The conference comes as a continuation of a political process that began on the eighth of last January between the signatories of the "Framework Agreement" on the fifth of December 2022, namely the ruling Military Sovereignty Council and civilian forces, most notably the Freedom and Change Central Council, to reach an agreement that solves the political crisis in the country.
The ongoing political process aims to resolve a crisis that has dragged on since October 25, 2021, when army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan imposed exceptional measures, including the dissolution of the Sovereignty Council and transitional ministers and the declaration of a state of emergency.