Sudan’s protest leaders on Thursday said they will talk with protestors camped outside the army headquarters in Khartoum to take their advice on how to break a deadlock in talks with the ruling military council on handing over power to civilian rule.
Talks between the protest alliance and the military council have been suspended since Monday after a disagreement over the makeup of the new ruling body, with both the generals and protest leaders insisting on their demands.
The Alliance for Freedom and Change said it will soon launch a campaign urging demonstrators who have been sitting for weeks outside the army complex in Khartoum, and in other cities, to come up with a solution on how to proceed with the protests, reported Times Now.
“We will give them all the information, we will listen to their views on how they want to go ahead with the revolution,” the umbrella protest group said in a statement.
The people of Sudan led the nationwide protest movement against longtime leader Omar al-Bashir that finally led to his ouster last month. The army who seized power after Bashir was ousted has resisted the demonstrators and the international community’s call to step down and allow for the formation of a new governing body led by civilians.
“We have one pending issue with the Transitional Military Council, the composition of the new sovereign council for which we have no agreement,” said the alliance. “We have all alternatives, to launch a strike or a civil disobedience movement. The decision is yours.”
Later on Thursday, a number of employees of the Central Bank of Sudan (CBoS) joined the country’s nationwide protests against the Transitional Military Council (TMC), calling for elections of a civilian government. Scores of medics also held a rally in front of a hospital in the capital to express their solidarity with the protesters.
