SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Sudanese embark on nationwide civil disobedience campaign

28/10/2021: Multiple sources – Sudanese embark on nationwide civil disobedience campaign

• AFP

• Radio Dabanga

• Reuters

In a response to the military coup, Sudanese embarked on a civil disobedience campaign, as large number of professional groups, unions, and associations announced strikes and other civil disobedience actions, leaving economic activities at a halt, with a “complete paralysis” in government and educational institutions in Sudan, as many people responded to the calls by the Sudanese Professionals Association, a trade union umbrella group that played a leading role in the uprising.

The majority of government institutions have stopped working, and most of the travel between Khartoum and the states has stopped.  Military forces fired live ammunition in neighbourhoods in the southern part of Khartoum to remove the road blocks set up by protesters.

A group of neighbourhood committees in Khartoum have announced a schedule of further street barricades and protests leading to what it said would be a “march of millions” on Saturday 30 October.