Internet cut again in Sudan ahead of other protests

The authorities again cut off access to mobile internet on Sunday in Sudan where activists are calling for demonstrations "

" of the bloody repression and to brave a massive security deployment.

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Since early Sunday, the security forces have blocked the bridges connecting Khartoum to its suburbs and the main axes of the capital, as with each call to demonstrate, sometimes perched on armored vehicles armed with imposing machine guns.

While 53 people have been killed and hundreds injured since General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane's coup on October 25, the country saw another peak in violence on Thursday.

Five demonstrators demanding civilian power in Sudan were shot dead in Khartoum, according to a pro-democracy doctors' union.

Violence which took place behind closed doors that day because the security forces had installed using cranes containers which still block the bridges connecting Khartoum to its suburbs.

Authorities also cut telephone communications and mobile internet while officers arrested and even beat journalists from two Saudi channels.

But, on Sunday, the demonstrators intend to take to the streets once again in front of the transitional authorities headed by General Burhane.

The strong man of the country extended his mandate for two years with his putsch which he describes as "

" which put an end in 2019 to 30 years of military-Islamist dictatorship of Omar el- Bashir.

However, the general struggles to present to the 45 million Sudanese the civilian government he promised by reinstalling civilian Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok on November 21, after a month of house arrest.

The supporters of civil power in Sudan, call on social networks to make 2022 "

", demanding justice for the dozens of demonstrators killed since the putsch, but also for the most of 250 civilians killed during the "

" of 2019.

In a country almost always under the rule of the army since its independence 65 years ago, the demonstrators also want, as their slogans proclaim, that "

" and that the country resume the path of democracy.