SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AP - Protesters return to Sudan streets, calling for more reforms,

30/6/2020: AP - Protesters return to Sudan streets, calling for more reforms, by Samy Magdy

 AP report on the June 30 “million-person march” across Sudan, as protesters pressured transitional authorities and demanded justice for those killed in the 2019 uprising. AP note that crowds gathered across Sudan “but few observed social distancing requirements to avoid contracting coronavirus.”

 The protests were called for by the Sudanese Professionals’ Association and the Resistance Committees. The organisers called for the appointment of civilian governors for Sudan’s provinces, peace with Sudan’s rebels who were part of the July 2019 power-sharing deal, and swift public trials for former president Omar al-Bashir and his top officials.

 Prime Minister Hamdok promised that his transitional government would work to carry out the protesters’ demands in the next two weeks. Hamdok said: “a number of decisive decisions ... will follow…some of them may have a significant impact — politically, economically and socially — and some parties will try to use them to fuel and create instability.”