Omdurman and Khartoum North (Bahri), saw the funerals of two protestors yesterday, who were shot dead during Monday’s Marches of the Millions. Activist Nazim Sarraj, reported that 200 protesters in Khartoum and Wad Madani, capital of El Gezira, were injured during the Marches of Millions on Monday. Khartoum recorded 130 injuries, Khartoum Bahri 44, Omdurman 15, and Wad Madani nine.
The first stage of UN-facilitated consultations for a political process in Sudan, hosted by the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), has concluded “with inspiring visions of Sudanese stakeholders on the way forward”, the Mission says.
Seven demonstrators were shot dead on Monday, during the January 17 March of Millions bound for the Republican Palace in Khartoum. These deaths sparked a call from the Executive Office to the Forces for Freedom and Change (FCC), to launch a comprehensive two-day campaign of civil disobedience starting today, condemning yesterday’s massacre.
On Sunday, doctors in Khartoum organised a demonstration to protest the violence used by government forces against hospitals treating wounded protesters. Resistance committees in Khartoum denounce the authorities’ attempts ‘to demonise them’.