The Sudanese army has sacked dictator Omar al Bashir after three decades in power

The Sudanese president Omar al Bashir, in power for three decades, He was fired by the armed forcesAfter months of mbad demonstrations calling for his resignation, Minister of National Defense Awad Ahmed Benawf announced Thursday.

"Announcement, as Minister of Defense, of the fall of the regime and the arrest of his boss in a safe place"he said on public television.

The announcement comes after these last days thousands of protesters remained camped in the vicinity of the main military complex in Khartoum to seek the support of the army in front of President Al Bashir. The army will remain in power for two years.

Hours before the fall of the president, the Sudanese National Security Corps announced the release of "all" political prisoners of the African country, according to the news agency SUNA.

The announcement of the official agency, which did not specify the number of political prisoners who will benefit from this measure, took place while the country was waiting for a statement from the army and the thousands were demonstrating in the streets of Khartoum to demand the resignation of the president.

The spokesman of the opposition party Al Baaz, Mohamed UedaaHe said to EFE that the security forces "they began to release hundreds of political prisoners and activists"Some of them have been detained since the beginning of the demonstrations that began last December.

"Many of the released have returned home, others have gone to the meeting"Uedaa said, referring to the mbad rally held since last Saturday in front of the army headquarters.

For its part, Sudan's Forces for Freedom of Change, a group of parties and opposition groups, said that the "regime" today gave a "military coup" stay in power after deposing President Omar al Bashir.

"The authorities of the regime took a military coup to reproduce the same faces and the same institutions against which the great people made the revolution"said the group in a statement issued by one of the groups that make up this movement, the Association of Professionals.

Demonstrations against Al Bashir they were released in mid-December in the midst of a crisis due to high inflation and shortage of bread and other commodities, but quickly incorporated into their demands the resignation of Al Bashir, in power since 1989.

Last Saturday, tens of thousands of people gathered in front of the army headquarters, organized by opposition parties and unions, and since that day, they have not left the street, despite the fact that during the weekend, security forces fired to try to disperse the demonstrations.

(With information from AFP and EFE)