Thousands of Sudanese demonstrators on Saturday demanded a "
military government
" to ensure the transition to the first elections after 30 years of dictatorship, and to lift the country out of political and economic slump, AFP journalists noted.
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"
It is the army that will give us our bread,
" they chanted in front of the presidential palace in Khartoum, where the transitional authorities currently sit jointly managed by soldiers and civilians.
"
We need a military government, the current cabinet has failed and only the army can bring us justice and equality
", added to AFP Abboud Ahmed, a farmer who describes himself as "
poor
".
Yahya Mohieddine, who came from his northern province, held up a sign calling for "
the dismissal of the government
" led, since the fall of Omar al-Bashir in 2019, by the technocrat Abdallah Hamdok.
Path to democracy
Friday evening, nearly a month after a failed coup, the latter denounced "
deep divisions
" between civilians and soldiers but also within these two blocs.
For him, the transition is going through its "
most dangerous
"
crisis
and the path to democracy is threatened.
As a sign that the hatchet is unearthed among civilians, the calls to demonstrate Saturday against his government were launched by a seditious faction of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FLC), - civil coalition of the "
revolution
" - , led by two former rebel leaders, including her Minister of Finance.
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As of Friday, the historic channel of the FLC estimated that "
the current crisis has nothing to do with the dismissal of the government
" but was the fact of some wanting "to
bring back the supporters of the old regime
".
In the capital, crisscrossed on its main axes by the security forces, pick-ups from different provinces, according to the official Suna agency, deposited new waves of protesters all afternoon, some of whom chanted "
An army. , a people
”.
"
There is no stability and life is too expensive
", hammered Abboud Ahmed, 50, in one of the poorest countries in the world, caught between an inflation of around 400% and austerity decreed by the government. International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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While for them, the demonstrators on Saturday are supporters of the old regime mobilized by the military, supporters of a complete transfer of power to civilians have already called for "
a demonstration of a million people
" Thursday.
The new authorities, made up of soldiers and civilians, are supposed to lead the country towards elections but are constantly pushing back the deadline, currently to 2023.