Hundreds demonstrate in Khartoum to demand handing power to army

KHARTOUM, Sept. 3 (YPA) – Political parties opposing to the government of Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok organized a demonstration on Thursday in central Khartoum, demanding the overthrow of the government and that the power in the country be handed over to the army.

Hundreds of citizens gathered from separate streets in central Khartoum with the intention of reaching the Sudanese army command and handing it over a memorandum authorizing the army to take over power, believing that the government had failed to resolve the crises in the country.

The army had preceded the demonstration, in the early hours of this morning, by closing the roads leading to the vicinity of its command headquarters, creating traffic jam and paralysis in the central area of Khartoum.

The demonstrators chanted slogans demanding the overthrow of Hamdok, and glorifying the army and urged it to intervene, without any reaction from the latter, which was satisfied with observing the situation and placing concrete barriers in front of its headquarters.

Sudan entered a transitional phase a year ago, with a partnership between civilians and the military, but that partnership is beset by persistent differences between the two sides, the last of them is about the fate of the military’s economic companies, which a number of “Freedom and Change” forces demand that they be given the Ministry of Finance.

YPA