Sudan: protesters want immediate switch to civilian government

Protest continues as protesters completely rejects the military council currently leading Sudan.

 They demand for immediate switch to civilian government following  there success in ousting out the president Mr Bashir and Coup leader, Defence Minister Awad Ibn Auf in what has been tagged one of the most successful civilian protest in Africa.

"We are here to remove the entire system, a system that does not give service equally to the people," Mohammed Jakur told AFP news agency. "A system that leave[s] people under poverty. A system that does not allow Sudan, as a rich country with human and natural resources, to act as any other country in the world."

Sudan protesters want immediate switch to civilian government

Amjad Farid, an SPA spokesman, told the BBC that they "completely rejected" the military council currently leading Sudan.
He said demands included the "full dissolution of the deep state" and the dismantling of state intelligence agencies.

Demonstrations began in December over a steep rise in the cost of living but soon developed into a wider call for the removal of Mr Bashir and his government.

Then last Thursday the military removed and detained the veteran leader after nearly 30 years in power.
Coup leader Defence Minister Awad Ibn Auf announced the military would oversee a two-year transitional period followed by elections and imposed a three-month state of emergency.

But demonstrators vowed to stay on the streets unless there was an immediate switch to civilian government.
Mr Ibn Auf himself stood down the next day, as did the feared security chief Gen Salah Gosh.
Lt Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan was then named as head of the transitional military council, to become Sudan's third leader in as many days.

Lt Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan

A military spokesman also said that the military had promised not to disperse protesters and said the council was "ready to implement" whatever civilian government the opposition parties agreed.
Opposition politician Mubarak al Fadil told the BBC that the role of the military should decrease over time.


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