The Sudanese Professional Association, which has organized months of mass protests calling for Al Bashir’s fall has distanced itself from this say, saying it will only accept a civilian transitional administration.

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The Sudanese Army’s named Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf as head of the transitional council.

There’s no word of the whereabouts of President Omar Al Bashir.

Security authorities will be at pains to keep him out of the clutches of the International Criminal Court where he has been indicted for war crimes in Darfur.

Saudi Arabia and Egypt have both offered him asylum.

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The latest victims are a child and a doctor killed by live round fired during a march on the presidential palace in Khartoum yesterday.

United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has expressed alarm at the heavy-handed response by Sudanese security forces to anti-government protests.

These have grown in size and the Sudanese Professionals Association, one of the dissident organizers, appeals for support from the international community against official repression. 

The protests in several cities began against price rises and cash shortages, but they’ve escalated to demands for the end of President Omar Al Bashir’s 30-year rule

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