Streets in the Sudanese capital are empty, a day after a pro-democracy sit-in was violently overrun by the country's ruling military authorities, who say they want to stage early elections.
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Streets in the Sudanese capital were empty on Tuesday, a day after a pro-democracy sit-in was violently overrun by the country’s ruling military authorities, who say they want to stage early elections.
An Associated Press journalist saw protesters still building up barricades in the suburbs of Khartoum, even as security forces in the city center were not allowing any access to the former sit-in site, setting up checkpoints around the area. Mohammed Yousef al-Mustafa, a spokesman for the Sudanese Professionals’ Association, which has spearheaded the protests, said: “We are rejecting what Burhan said. Now, they have proved that they are a military coup.”
“We have no choice but to continue our protests and civil disobedience until the fall of the military council,” he added.
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