The new protester death, the first since Aug. 31, brought to at least 118 the number of people who have died in a year, according to a doctors’ organization that has been keeping track of casualties since the country’s military junta was imposed.
A protester was killed yesterday Sunday in Khartoum, hit in the chest “by a bullet” from the security forces, medics announced, as the mobilization against the military coup began, which is expected to culminate on Tuesday, the anniversary of the seizure of power by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
The new protester death, the first since Aug. 31, raised to at least 118 the number of people who have died in a year of repression, according to a doctors’ organization that has been counting casualties since the military junta was imposed.
On October 25, 2021, the head of the army dismissed the citizens of the transitional government that was supposed to lead the African country to democracy, after 30 years of the dictatorship of Omar El Bashir, who was overthrown by his generals in the face of a popular uprising. in 2019.
Since then, almost every week, Sudanese have taken to the streets, defying the crackdown.
Anti-dictatorship activists and the resistance committees, the neighborhood-level organizations organizing the marches, promise that tomorrow, on the anniversary of the military coup, the protests will be massive.
Already on Friday, they mobilized thousands of demonstrators in various cities of Sudan, who once again demanded that power be handed over to citizens.
For a year now, the country, which is one of the poorest in the world, continues to sink deeper and deeper into the political and economic crisis.
No exit is discernible, despite the efforts of international mediators, who seek to sit down at the same table again between civilians and military.
As for the economic situation, it keeps getting worse: between triple-digit inflation and shortages of basic goods, at least a third of Sudan’s roughly 45 million people suffer from hunger.
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