A Sudanese protester was shot dead by security forces on Thursday during renewed demonstrations against last year’s military coup led, reported The TRT World.
The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said the demonstrator was shot in the capital’s twin city of Omdurman, taking the total death toll from a crackdown on anti-coup demonstrations to 120. Last month, a security forces’ vehicle ran over a protester, during demonstrations marking a year since the putsch.
The committee said that the protester died of wounds sustained after he was hit by a bullet in the abdomen by the Sudanese security forces. The security forces also fired tear gas an stun grenades at protesters on Thursday.
Sudan has been gripped by unrest and violence since army Chief, Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, seized power on October 25, 2021. Al-Burhan arrested the civilian leaders with whom he had agreed to share power in 2019 after mass protests led to the ouster of long-time autocrat Omar Al-Bashir. The sovereign council was tasked with overseeing the transition period until elections in 2023.
The northeast African country, ranked among one of the world’s poorest countries, has plunged into a worsening economic crisis since the coup.
Demonstrators continue to demand the Sudanese military to return to the barracks. Efforts by the UN mission in Sudan to mediate a way out of the crisis between the country’s civilian and military leaders have so far failed to give any result.
But the two factions have welcomed a transitional constitution developed by the Sudanese Bar Association as a basis for a lasting agreement.
Last week, the man civilian bloc, the Forces for Freedom and Change, said it had approved a two-phase political process based on the Bar Association’s initiative, which would see the establishment of a civilian government.
On Wednesday, Sudan’s Army Chief, Al-Burhan, said that the military will accept any non-partisan government that maintains the country’s unity.
