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Sudanese capital Khartoum is facing incessant protests from pro-democracy people, who urge re-installation of civilian government removed by the military junta in October last year
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Monday to protest over the military takeover. The military junta removed the transitional civilian led government in the coup last October. The protesters carried placards criticising the junta and chanted slogans against it.
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A political way out is still not in sight for ending the stalemate in spite of the international pressure to do so. The UN led negotiations have failed to yield results. The ruling junta s vow to hand power to an elected government and assure elections next year. However, protesters, who are mostly young, want an immediate handover of the levers of power.
Heavy crackdown by forces and an apparent lack of progress in negotiations are not taking off the heat from the protesters. They continue to rally in a country which experimented with democracy in April 2019 after a popular uprising forced the military to remove long-time leader Omar al-Bashir. Since then, the situation is continuing in a limbo. Several people died and hundreds injured in the wild protests. The protesters are urging that there was no compromise on reinstallation of democracy.
Analysts point out that it was very unlikely that the military would bog down by these protests. It is also unlikely the protesters would mellow down their tenor of the protests despite the pressure exerted by the military.
