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"People want to overthrow Ibn Auf," chanted a crowd in Khartoum.
The group that led the anti-government protests, the Sudanese Professionals Association, or SPA, rejected the "declaration of coup d'etat" and called on the population to continue demonstrations and hold a sit-in in front of the headquarters. l & # 39; army.
The group said the protests would continue until "the power is transferred to a civilian transitional government."
"The regime has made a military coup to reproduce the same faces and entities against which our great people have revolted," said SPA, an organization that brings together doctors, lawyers and journalists.
"Those who have destroyed the country and killed its people want to appropriate every drop of blood shed by the great Sudanese people during its revolution."
S addressing CNN, activist Omar al-Neel said that "the street totally refuses the announcement made by Ibn Auf".
"All Sudanese are in the street and demand the fall of the regime and do not recycle the same people," he said.
The United States said on Thursday that it had ordered the departure of Sudan from all unaffected government personnel in the wake of the coup against President Bashir.
The State Department has also raised its travel tips at the highest level – Level 4: Do not travel.
The UK also warns of "essential travel to Khartoum and all remaining parts of Sudan".
State Department spokesman Robert Palladino said the United States was "watching" the situation and that "the main goal of the United States at the moment is security and good be our team of embbadies on the ground as well as private citizens, US citizens in Sudan ".
He added that "the Sudanese people should determine who is leading it and secure its future" and that it should "be allowed to do so sooner than two years from now".
Jehanne Henry, badociate director of Human Rights Watch for Africa, said the new Sudanese authorities' handling of the protests against them would be an essential "test" for the new regime.
"The protesters who are watching are right to remain skeptical," she said, adding that Ibn Auf "has no record at all … The United States has sanctioned him for his role in the atrocities committed in Darfur ".
On Friday morning, the UN Security Council is due to hold a closed-door debate on the situation in Sudan, according to the United Kingdom's mission to the United Nations.
Jonathan Allen, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, said Thursday that "the main message is again that there must be no violence against these protesters".
"The change proposed by the army is not enough. It's not enough to say that a two-year transition to a civilian regime is enough, "Allen said. "We need a much faster transition.
We must see a civilian government now. That's what the protesters called for and that's what we have to do. "
Bashir took control after a coup in 1989 and became president in 1993. He is accused of conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign in the Darfur region and was arrested almost in 2015 during a visit to South Africa.
He faces five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes related to Sudanese military actions in Darfur.
The International Criminal Court has issued two arrest warrants against him and considers him "on the run".
On Thursday, Bashir was visited by officials of its four main security organs. He was told "that there was no alternative" but to resign, CNN told two senior military officials directly aware of the conversation.
According to sources, Bashir responded by saying "with the blessing of God," an expression of acquiescence to the Islamic tradition.
Bashir is under house arrest, sources said. His personal guard has been replaced and is being closely monitored, sources added. Sudanese Prime Minister Mohamed Taher Ayala and Ahmed Haroun, chairman of the ruling Congress party, were among the dozens of officials who were also arrested, a senior army official told CNN on Wednesday. arrests.
The CNN attacker in Khartoum witnessed the badault of the military troops against the headquarters of the Islamic Movement, the main component of the ruling party.
The Sudanese intelligence agency has announced that it has ordered the release of all political detainees, the official Sudanese news agency SUNA reported on Thursday. More than 3,000 people have been arrested since demonstrations began in December based on CNN's testimony to activists, lawyers and victims.
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