Sadiq al-Mahdi calls on Sudan’s President to step down

SANAA, March 3 (YPA) -The leader of Sudan’s largest opposition party, Sadiq al-Mahdi, has called on Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to step down.

Al-Mahdi, the leader of the National Umma Party, expressed his willingness to meet with opposition representatives “to agree on the details of the crossing into the new regime.”

The National Umma Party has on Saturday condemned the Sudanese authorities’ ban on organizing a political seminar for the party at its headquarters in Omdurman, saying the move is against to the Constitution and international covenants.

“We condemn the prevention of the symposium dedicated to the memory of the martyrs and the solidarity with the wounded, the displaced and the arbitrarily detained, and we know that the security measures obstructed the holding of this symposium,” the statement read.

The statement said that the Umma party and other political forces, including the Freedom and Change Proclamation, had called for a mass rally at the Umma Party headquarters on Saturday evening, explaining that “the organization of peaceful activities within the party’s role is a right available under the parties ‘ law.”

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