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The Sudanese protest movement said Saturday that it had canceled a day of civil disobedience throughout the country scheduled for the end of the month, after entering into a power-sharing agreement with the ruling generals.
The Alliance for Freedom and Change and the ruling military council decided on Friday to create a joint decision-making body, which in turn would install a transitional civil administration, the protesters' main demand.
The leaders of the protest, Ahmed al-Rabie and Khalid Omar, confirmed to AFP that the civil disobedience campaign had been canceled.
"It's to leave room for agreement" to implement, Rabie said.
An agreement should be ready to be signed by both sides early next week, although the project postponed the formation of a 300-seat transitional parliament, which had been agreed in previous talks.
The event's coordination group released Saturday a new program of events on social media networks, which makes no mention of the July 14 civil disobedience campaign.
The alliance also called for a mbad demonstration against the generals on July 13 – a date that marks 40 days since the pre-dawn raid on a protest camp in Khartoum by men in military fatigues having killed dozens of protesters.
According to the new program proposed by the alliance, rallies will be held on July 13 to commemorate the victims of the raid.
Omar said the previous goal of the mbad protest and civil disobedience campaign was to "achieve a civilian regime" by mobilizing people in the streets against the generals.
"But now, we can badume that the civil rule will be reached thanks to the agreement," he added.
The tension between generals and protesters increased after the raid. It was only after intense mediation by the Ethiopian emissaries and the African Union that the two sides resumed negotiations and finally reached an agreement on Friday.
At least 136 people have been killed since June 3, including more than 100 the same day, according to doctors close to the protest movement.
The Ministry of Health announced that 78 people would have lost their lives in the same period.
A few days after the raid on the sit-in, the protest alliance organized a three-day national civil disobedience campaign, which sparked strong participation and badly affected the country's already dilapidated economy.
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