SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Sudan talks cancelled as army ruler condemns teenagers killing

30/7/19: Multiple sources - Sudan talks cancelled as army ruler condemns teenagers killing

• AFP

• Reuters

• Guardian, by Jason Burke and Zeinab Mohammed Salih

 Sudanese protest leaders, the Forces of Freedom and Change, have cancelled planned talks with the Sudanese ruling generals as they visited El-Obeid, where at least five school children were shot dead.

 The FFC accused the Rapid Support Forces of shooting dead the teenagers at a rally against shortages of bread and fuel.

 The killings came as protest leaders were to hold talks with the generals on Tuesday (30 July) on the remaining aspects of installing civilian rule after the two sides inked a power-sharing deal earlier this month.

 Meanwhile, Abdelfattah Al Burhan, the head of Sudan’s ruling military council said there must be immediate accountability over the killings.

 The governor of North Kordofan state, General Al-Sadiq al-Tayeb Abdallah, said “infiltrators” had diverted a peaceful demonstration from its course and attacked a bank branch and tried to attack another.