The internet remains cut off in Khartoum, with other communications significantly restricted. Two opposition leaders who met the Ethiopian prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, in Khartoum on Friday have been detained, along with an opposition spokesman.Ībiy was in the Sudanese capital to mediate between the TMC and the opposition, which has refused to reopen negotiations. We do not know their whereabouts,” an airport worker said on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisal.Īctivists said the total number of people detained by security services in recent days was unclear but was probably in the hundreds. “Dozens of airport workers have been arrested by intelligence and the RSF since Monday. The SPA said airport workers and pilots were taking part in the civil disobedience, and posted photos of a deserted Khartoum international airport. “I am on strike along with many other employees at the bank, I think there are few of our colleagues didn’t go on strike but they sold the blood of the martyrs … I don’t care even if they kick me out. The central bank issued a statement that said it would not go on strike, but many employees stayed away. The other two died of their injuries after RSF forces beat them in Omdurman, it said.Īctivists say that professionals including bankers, doctors, air traffic control staff, pilots, electrical engineers and economists have been targeted by intelligence services in what they say is an obvious attempt to break the strike. The Sudan Doctors’ Committee, the medical affiliate of the SPA, said at least three people were killed on Sunday, including a young man who was shot dead by the RSF in Khartoum’s Bahri neighbourhood. The force is led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo – known as Hemedti – who also serves as the deputy head of the TMC.
The RSF, which is largely made up of militias accused of systemic human rights abuses during the war in Darfur, has been blamed for the killings last week. Residents said heavily armed paramilitaries from the Rapid Support Forces were patrolling parts of Khartoum while the regular army has now deployed in some parts of Omdurman. Talks between the opposition Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces alliance and the TMC, which took power after Bashir’s departure, ground to a halt last month then collapsed altogether after the raid on the protest camp. The ruling Transitional Military Council has since refused demonstrators’ demands for an immediate move to civilian rule, instead pushing for a transitional power-sharing arrangement.
The military took power after ousting the then president, Omar al-Bashir, in April after months of mass rallies. “The peaceful resistance by civil disobedience and the general political strike is the fastest and most effective way to topple the military council … and to hand over power to a transitional civilian authority,” the SPA said. The Sudanese Professionals Association, a leading opposition group, said it had called on people to stay home in protest at the deaths of more than 100 people on Monday last week, when security forces violently dispersed a pro-democracy sit-in outside the military headquarters in Khartoum. Four protesters were killed in sporadic violence in the two cities. Shops were closed and streets were empty throughout the capital, Khartoum, and in the neighbouring Omdurman.
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