The Sudanese protestors who led protests against ousted President Omar al-Bashir on Monday demanded the scrapping of the new military council and kept up calls for a civilian government at a sit-in outside army headquarters.
“We want the military council to be dissolved and be replaced by a civilian council having representatives of the army,” said Mohamed Naji, a senior leader of the Sudanese Professionals Association, reported Daily Nation.
The organization also called on their supporters to boost the numbers outside the complex in Khartoum as the military is undertaking an attempt to disperse a 10-day-old mass protest outside army headquarters.
“There is an attempt to disperse the sit-in from the army headquarters area, they are trying to remove the barricades,” the SPA said in a statement. “We call on our people to come immediately to the sit-in area to protect our revolution.”
After the exit of Bashir, Defence Minister Awad Ibn Auf, and security chief Gen Salah Gosh, the protestors are now demanding the sacking of the country’s judiciary chief and prosecutor general. Notably, the military council is currently facing the mounting public and diplomatic pressure to hand over power to a civilian administration.
Mohamed Naji, a senior leader of the Sudanese Professionals Association, said the protestors want the military council to be dissolved and be replaced by a civilian council having representatives of the army.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has also supported the protestors call for a civilian government. She called for a rapid transfer of power to a civilian transitional government in a phone call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
“This must be followed by a credible, inclusive political process that meets the expectations of the Sudanese people with regard to economic and political reforms,” Merkel’s office said in a statement.
Sisi also reiterated Egypt’s support for “the brotherly Sudanese people’s will”, while the 55-member African Union threatened to suspend Sudan if the military fails to hand power over to civilians within 15 days.
