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2021-11-26 Africa Horn
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Sudanese security forces fire tear gas at anti-military deal protests
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 [AlAhram] Sudanese security forces fired tear gas Thursday at thousands of protesters who rallied against a deal that saw the prime minister reinstated after his ouster in a military takeover last month, witnesses said.
Demonstrators in the capital, Khartoum, chanted "the people want the downfall of the regime" while in the capital's twin city Omdurman others shouted "power to the people, a civilian government is the people's choice".
Security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters in Omdurman as well as in the central state of North Kordofan and in North Darfur, witnesses said.
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General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan seized power and detained Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on October 25, but after international condemnation and mass protests he reinstated the premier in a deal they signed on Sunday.
"I initially went out to protest to demand retribution for people killed after the coup, and now I am protesting against the Burhan-Hamdok deal," protester Soheir Hamad told AFP in south Khartoum.
This deal "blocks the way toward a full civilian rule. We don't want the military to play a role in politics", she said.
Protests also broke out in other states including Wad Madani, Kassala, and the western Darfur region, according to witnesses.
Pro-democracy activists in Sudan have accused Hamdok of "betrayal" and vowed to maintain pressure on the military-civilian authority.
Protest organisers have dubbed Thursday as "Martyr's day", to pay tribute to the 42 people killed, according to medics, in the deadly crackdown against anti-coup demonstrators.
'STOP THE BLOODSHED'
Hamdok, who has been prime minister in the transitional government since the ouster of long-time autocratic ruler Omar al-Bashir
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it...
in 2019, as defended the deal.
But protesters in North Khartoum slammed him, chanting: "Burhan is dirty" and has been "brought to power by Islamists", connected to Bashir's regime.
Ahead of Thursday's protests, Hamdok met with senior police officials and urged them to secure the protests.
Volker Perthes, the UN special envoy to Sudan who helped mediate between the military and civilian factions after the coup, said Wednesday that the rallies were "another test of credibility" of the agreement.
He urged authorities to allow demonstrations to go ahead "without bloodshed or arbitrary arrests".
Hamdok, said on Wednesday he had partnered with the military to "stop the bloodshed" and to "not squander the gains of the last two years".
He also said the agreement with Burhan has outlined a "clear date" for Sudan's first free elections in three decades slated for July 2023.
Sunday's deal raised hopes that Sudan will be able to return to its tenuous transition process but critics slammed the agreement as "whitewashing" the coup.
About 12 out 17 ministers from Sudan's main civilian bloc calling for a full civilian rule, who were part of Hamdok's cabinet before the military takeover, resigned Monday saying they rejected the deal which "legitimises the coup regime".
Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone......
the agreement was welcomed by the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
, African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
, Western countries as well as Arab powerhouses Saudi Arabia
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
and Egypt, which have strong ties with the Sudanese military.
Several civilian leaders who were arrested since the military takeover were released this week but key figures have remained in detention.
Perthes welcomed the releases but said "if the 'political agreement' is to be taken seriously, all detainees should be released immediately" 
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