Who are the leaders of the Sudanese protesters and what are their demands?

After overthrowing veteran Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir and forcing his successor, General Awad Ibn Ouf, to withdraw, protesters turned their anger on the ruling military council.

Who are the leaders of the protest movement now four months old and what are their demands?

Here is a recap:

Who are the leaders of the event?

The group that initially launched the protests against Bashir's three decades rule is the Sudanese Association of Professionals (ASP), made up of engineering unions, doctors and teachers.

The anti-Bashir campaign quickly spread throughout the country, into towns and villages, joined by members of all sectors of Sudanese society.

The main leaders of the SPA are Mohamed Yousef Ahmed Mustafa, a professor at the University of Khartoum, and Mohamed Naji, a doctor who was arrested shortly after the start of the protests.

Professor Ahmed al-Rabia is also a key member of the SPA, as is Omar Salah, a physician.

A few weeks after the start of the campaign, several political parties and civil society groups joined the PSA to form a coordination group called the Alliance for Freedom and Change.

This coordination group includes the main Sudanese opposition party, the Umma National Party, as well as other parties such as the Sudanese Congress Party and the Sudanese Communist Party.

Rebel groups in Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile, which for years have fought government forces in all three regions, are also part of the coordination group.

What do they require?

The leaders of the demonstration announced their intention to unveil on Sunday a civilian organ to replace the ruling military council that took power after Bashir was ousted on April 11.

In addition to dissolving the military council, they have other demands:

– A civilian council should form a transitional civilian government that would govern for a four-year term, followed by elections.

– The dissolution of the party of the Bashir National Congress, whose most senior leaders have been brought to justice, including the deposed president.

– the confiscation of the properties of the PCN.

– The restoration of the country's constitution of 2005, which the military council suspended shortly after the ouster of Bashir.

– The release of all civilians arrested in connection with the protest movement, as well as army personnel and police detained for refusing to open fire on protesters.

– The end of the state of emergency imposed by Bashir on February 22nd.

What have the military leaders done so far?

– Night curfew lifted

– Detention of Bashir and some other leaders of the regime, although the whereabouts of many senior regime officials are unknown.

– dismissed the Attorney General at the request of the protesters.

– Accepted the resignation of Salah Ghosh, head of the dreaded National Security and Intelligence Service (NISS), who repressed the crackdown on protesters who killed dozens of people, wounded hundreds of people and imprisoned thousands .

– The Khartoum attaché in Washington, Mohamed Atta, who previously headed the NISS.

– sacked provincial governors and replaced them with commanders of the local army.

– Integrated in the military, a paramilitary group called Popular Defense Force.

– Freed many political detainees, including protesters imprisoned under the emergency regime.