KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Sudanese medical union says at least one person has been shot dead by security forces near a sit-in outside the military's headquarters in the capital, Khartoum.

The Sudan Doctors Committee says the shooting took place late Saturday on Nile Street and that at least 11 people were wounded.

Two people were killed in the area last week.

The doctors committee is part of the Sudanese Professionals Association, which has been spearheading the protests that led to the military overthrow of longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir in April.

Tens of thousands have staged a sit-in outside the military headquarters since April 6, following nearly four months of protests against al-Bashir.

Tensions have risen as negotiations remain deadlocked between protesters and the generals, who took over the country after al-Bashir's ouster. </s> KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Sudanese medical union says at least one person has been shot dead by security forces near a sit-in outside the military’s headquarters in the capital, Khartoum.

The Sudan Doctors Committee says the shooting took place late Saturday on Nile Street and that at least 11 people were wounded.

Two people were killed in the area last week.

The doctors committee is part of the Sudanese Professionals Association, which has been spearheading the protests that led to the military overthrow of longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir in April.

Tens of thousands have staged a sit-in outside the military headquarters since April 6, following nearly four months of protests against al-Bashir.

Tensions have risen as negotiations remain deadlocked between protesters and the generals, who took over the country after al-Bashir’s ouster. </s> CAIRO (AP) - Sudanese activists say a protester injured in anti-government demonstrations has died of his wounds.

An umbrella coalition of independent professional unions says Wednesday the victim, Abuzar Ahmed, was shot in the head last week in the eastern city of Gadaref.

The coalition says at least 22 protesters were wounded on Tuesday.

There were no reports of fresh protests on Wednesday.

The protests began last week, initially over rising prices and shortages of food and fuel, but later escalated into calls for President Omar Bashir to step down.

Amnesty International said it had "credible reports" that Sudanese police have killed 37 protesters since the protests began.

In this Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018 handout image provided a Sudanese activist, people chant slogans during a demonstration in Kordofan, Sudan. In the capital Khartoum on Tuesday, police used tear gas and fired in the air to disperse thousands of protesters attempting to march on the presidential palace to demand that Omar Bashir, Sudan's president of 29 years, step down, according to activists and video clips posted online. (Sudanese Activist via AP)

The government has acknowledged fatalities during the protests but given no figures. An opposition leader said over the weekend that 22 protesters were killed. </s> (Reuters) - At least 11 people were wounded by gunfire near a protest sit-in in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Saturday, an opposition doctors’ committee said.

Sudan’s main protest group blamed the violence on the Transitional Military Council (TMC), saying that it is part of a plan to violently clear the protests.

“The killing and intimidation on Nile Street is just a prelude to committing a massacre to end the sit-in by force,” Sudanese Professionals’ Association (SPA) said in a statement late on Saturday.

Tensions are mounting between the TMC and an alliance of protest and opposition groups who want a quick handover of power to civilians.

TMC officials could not immediately be reached for a comment.

The head of the central Khartoum military region said on Thursday the protest site “has become unsafe and represents a danger to the revolution and the revolutionaries and threatens the coherence of the state and its national security.” </s> Sudan: At least 10 killed as protesters return to the streets

Sudan: At least 10 killed as protesters return to the streets

Protesters are demanding the military hand power over to civilians

At least 10 people have been killed and more than 180 wounded across Sudan as protesters returned to the streets to call for the ruling military council to hand power to the people.

In the biggest demonstrations since a deadly raid by security forces on a protest camp in Khartoum three weeks ago, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in several parts of the Sudanese capital.

In two areas near the presidential palace and in the eastern neighbourhood of Riyadh, they were met by security forces firing barrages of tear gas, witnesses said.

A senior military official said unknown snipers had shot at civilians and paramilitary soldiers during the demonstration.

General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who is the deputy head of the Transitional Military Council (TMC), in a televised statement: "There are snipers shooting at people, they shot three members of RSF and five or six citizens."

He added: "We are upset and we want to get things under control."

The general gave no more information on the affiliation of the gunmen, and if anyone had died.

Sudanese activist Nazim Sirraj said three further bodies had been discovered on Monday near a school in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum.

He said they had been shot.



Video clips showed demonstrators running away from security forces in the streets of Khartoum and seeking shelter, AP said.

Troops and riot police on a highway leading to Khartoum's international airport allowed some protesters to pass through but a protest leader said security forces used tear gas to disperse people in Omdurman and the district of Bahri in the capital. Tens of thousands had taken to the streets in cities across the country earlier repeating their call for civilian rule nearly three months after the army forced out dictator Omar al Bashir.

The marches marked the 30th anniversary of the Islamist-backed coup that brought Bashir to power in 1989, toppling Sudan's last elected government.

Bashir was removed by the military in April amid mass protests against his rule, but the calls for the military to hand over power completely have continued.

On Sunday, protesters chanted anti-military slogans like "Burhan's council, just fall", referring to General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the military council.

Much of the protesting has been co-ordinated by the Sudan Professionals' Association (SPA), made up of a people with jobs that often require years in education, like teachers, lawyers and engineers.

Talks between the two sides over a power-sharing agreement collapsed earlier this month following a crackdown from the authorities.

In the following weeks, at least 128 people across the county have been killed, according to protest organisers.

Sudanese authorities say 61 have died, including three from security forces.

Efforts by the African Union and Ethiopia have been under way to bring about an end to the crisis and reach a deal over setting up a new transitional government.

The military council said Friday it was ready to resume "immediate, serious and honest" talks but the Forces for Declaration of Freedom and Change, which represents the protesters, said talks could only begin once those in power have officially approved the AU-Ethiopian proposal. </s> "A commission of inquiry formed by the prosecutor general of Sudan to investigate the events near the military command headquarters [in Khartoum] began operating and is interrogating several witnesses," the source said, adding that the investigation will be completed shortly.

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On Wednesday, the Sudanese Transitional Military Council (TMC)’s head, Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, said it was recommended that the Office of the Prosecutor General conducts an impartial investigation into the armed dispersal of the protesters' camp in Khartoum, during which the security forces used firearms and killed 14 people.

On Monday, Sudanese security forces attacked a sit-in protest camp near the military headquarters in Khartoum, firing at the protesters and killing 14.

According to the opposition Central Committee of Sudan Doctors, as many as 60 people were killed in the clashes, hundreds were wounded. Protesters have been demanding the military resign and hands power over to civilian rule since 6 April.

On Tuesday, Burhan held a television address in which he announced the termination of negotiations with the opposition. He called for general elections to be held within nine months and announced forming an interim caretaker government to run the country until then.

Long-standing popular protests in Sudan culminated in a military coup on 11 April, when then-President Omar Bashir was overthrown and detained after almost 30 years in power.

The TMC took over and pledged to organize new presidential elections within two years. Protesters have remained in the streets demanding that the military yield power to a civilian authority. </s> KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudanese military officials said Sunday that troops were attempting to remove “drug dealers and other criminals” from an area located near a protest sit-in in the capital, Khartoum. This comes a day after a Sudanese medical union said one person was shot dead by security forces in the same area, located along the banks of the Nile river.

The man, in his 20s, was the third killed in less than a week in the area around Nile street, which the military officials described as “lawless.”

On Thursday, security forces killed a 20-year-old man, while the previous day, a gunfight between security forces had erupted near the sit-in, killing a female street vendor by mistake.

The area is not far from where tens of thousands of protesters have been camped outside the military’s headquarters, the epicenter of Sudan’s uprising that led to the military overthrow of longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir in April.

The protesters are now calling for “limited military representation” in a sovereign council that would lead the country as it transitions to civilian rule over a three-year period.

The military officials said the Nile street area was being “cleared” by forces mainly from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo - better known as Hemedti - who serves as deputy head of the ruling military council. The officials said security agencies have been attempting to carry out a “security plan to clear the area and put an end to such criminal acts.” Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters.

The Sudan Doctors Committee said in a statement Saturday that at least 11 people were wounded when “regular forces opened fire on Nile Street near the sit-in area.” The statement did not identify which forces were implicated in the fire.

The doctors committee is part of the Sudanese Professionals Association, which has been spearheading the protests.

Amid these increased tensions and deadlocked transition talks, the leading opposition Umma Party warned on Sunday of an attempt to break up the sit-in and called for the military council to resume negotiations with the protesters.

“There is no choice except to negotiate… to overcome the conflicts at these critical times that threaten the state and the county’s integrity,” the party said in a statement.

Both sides are split over the make-up and leadership of the sovereign council, with the ruling generals refusing to relinquish power.

The protesters are represented by the Forces for Declaration of Freedom and Change, an alliance of opposition groups and activists. </s> CAIRO - Sudanese activists say a protester injured in anti-government demonstrations has died of his wounds.

An umbrella coalition of independent professional unions says Wednesday the victim, Abuzar Ahmed, was shot in the head last week in the eastern city of Gadaref.

The coalition says at least 22 protesters were wounded on Tuesday.

There were no reports of fresh protests on Wednesday.

The protests began last week, initially over rising prices and shortages of food and fuel, but later escalated into calls for President Omar Bashir to step down.

Amnesty International said it had "credible reports" that Sudanese police have killed 37 protesters since the protests began. </s> Khartoum [Sudan], July 30 (ANI): At least five protesters, including four high school students, have been shot dead after security forces opened fire on a student protest in the central Sudanese city of El-Obeid on Monday (local time), opposition groups have said.

The killings came a day before protest leaders and ruling generals are set to hold new talks on Sudan's transition government following the removal of former leader, Omar al-Bashir, Al Jazeera reported.

Gunfire rang out as teenagers rallied against fuel and bread shortages in the capital of North Kordofan state, residents were quoted as saying, at a time of heightened tensions between opposition campaigners and the military following Bashir's removal.

A key protest group, the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), said, "live ammunition" had been used against a "rally of school students" in the central town of El-Obeid.

In a post on its Facebook page, it urged "all citizens and medics" to head to hospitals treating the wounded.

"We call on our people to take to the streets ... to denounce the Al-Obeid massacre, to demand the perpetrators be brought to justice," said the SPA, which had launched the initial protests.

Authorities announced a nighttime curfew in four Sudanese towns following the incident. There was no immediate statement from the ruling military council.

The acting governor of North Kordofan, Mohamed Khidr Mohamed Hamid, told Al-Arabiya TV there had been a "slight friction" between protesters and security forces. He added that he could not confirm who opened fire and a committee would investigate the incident. (ANI)
Shots fired by "regular forces" near the site of a sit-in protest in Khartoum kill one person and wound 10 others, according to the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors. The gunfire lasted about four hours. This week at least three protesters have been shot dead and eight others injured during protests calling for the generals who replaced deposed President Omar al-Bashir to hand power to a civilian-led administration.