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2022-07-28 Africa Horn
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Sudan forces kill at least 1 during protests - Doctors group
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[AFRICANEWS] Sudanese security forces killed at least one person while violent mostly peacefully dispersed anti-coup protesters Tuesday in the capital of Khartoum and other cities, a medical group said.
The Sudan Doctors Committee, which is part of the pro-democracy movement, said the protester was rubbed out when security forces gave the demonstrators a whiff of grapeshot in Omdurman, Khartoum’s sister city.
It said the fatality brought the death tally among protesters to at least 118, mostly young people, since the military seized power in October 25 in a globally condemned coup that plunged the country into worsening turmoil.
Thousands of people were maimed in the nearly weekly street protests since the coup, according to the medical group, which tracks casualties among protesters. The coup derailed the country’s transition to democracy following a popular uprising forced the military’s removal of longtime autocrat 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...
and his Islamist-allied government in April 2019.
The leading pro-democracy movement, known as the Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change, called for Tuesday’s protests to denounce the coup and dayslong tribal festivities in the southern Blue Nile province that killed at least 105 people earlier this month. 
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