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The main group of Sudanese protesters on Tuesday called for a mbad rally, as tension mounted over the constitution of a new civilian-military council to run the country.
The protesters reinforced their barricades in front of the army headquarters in Khartoum after the two sides had failed to agree on the number of seats on the council of civilian and military representatives.
The joint council is expected to replace the military body that took power after the military overthrow of veteran president Omar al-Bashir on April 11, following mbadive protests against his three-decade reign.
But both sides disagree on its composition, the army calling for a 10-member council, including seven army representatives and three civilians.
Disagreements led the Alliance for Freedom and Change to announce a "strong march of one million May 2 to badert our main claim, namely a civil regime".
At the risk of angry protesters, a senior Sudanese official announced on Tuesday that the new body would be led by the current military leader, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
The protesters called the Burhan-led military council a "copyist of the overthrown regime".
They want a majority of civilians on a 15-member joint council with seven representatives of the military.
The military council added that six security personnel had been killed in clashes with protesters across the country on Monday, adding that the discord was worsening.
"In various incidents, six members of the security forces were killed and 16 wounded," Deputy Chief Mohammad Hamdan Dagolo, known as Himeidti, said.
"There have been market fires and looting," he said, adding that the protest leaders had informed the military council that any incidents outside the Khartoum site did not represent them. not.
Thousands of demonstrators began to gather in front of the army headquarters in the capital on April 6, demanding that the armed forces support them to overthrow Bashir.
Five days later, the army took power through a transitional military council, after the dismissal of Bashir, after months of protests that began with troubles caused by the tripling of the price bread.
Since then, the 10-member General Council has resisted calls for resignation.
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But on Saturday, both sides decided to form a joint civil-military body to pave the way for a civilian government.
According to the leaders of the event, the joint council would be a global decision-making body that wants a separate civilian transitional administration to manage the country's day-to-day affairs and prepare for elections.
A Sudanese protest group said on Monday that the army was trying to suppress the barricades and disperse the sit-in in front of the army headquarters, but witnesses said the troops were not there. not moved.
"The army is trying to disperse the sit-in by removing the barricades," said the Association of Sudanese Professionals (ASP), the group that launched the protest movement against the Bashir regime.
"We call our people to go immediately to the sit-in zone and we call on the revolutionaries to protect the barricades and rebuild them."
But the deputy head of council insisted that he was "not against the continuation of the sit-in".
"We offered our help to support the protesters during Ramadan," the holy month of the Muslim fast, which began in May, told the press.
Lieutenant-General Salah Abdelkhalik, also a member of the ruling military council, said the army would "never use violence against protesters".
Witnesses present at the sit-in told AFP that protesters were reinforcing some of the improvised roadblocks.
"These barricades are meant to protect us, we do not want a military vehicle to enter the sit-in zone, we will not move until we have a civilian regime," said a spokesman. demonstrating at AFP.
Some protesters perched on the rooftops of neighboring buildings to monitor the troops, while others sat on barricades holding Sudanese flags.
Protesters won support from Western governments for their demands.
But major Arab Gulf donors in Sudan have supported the military council, while African states have asked for more time for the military to empower civilians.
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