Waving flags, beating drums, dancing and chanting, crowds marched on the streets of Khartoum.
Sudanese protesters clashed with security forces during an anti-coup protest near the presidential palace in the capital, Khartoum.Tens of thousands of protesters have rallied two months after a military coup in Sudan, demanding that soldiers "go back to the barracks" and calling for a transition to civilian rule.
Officers had earlier barricaded bridges connecting the capital to suburbs, cut phone lines and restricted internet access ahead of the planned protests., according to the committee, and Khartoum's state governor has warned that security forces "will deal with those who break the law and create chaos".Demonstrators converged on the presidential palace in Khartoum, the headquarters of the military government in control since General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan seized power on October 25.
The move alienated many of Mr Hamdok's pro-democracy supporters, who dismissed it as providing a cloak of legitimacy for Burhan's coup."What happened on 25 October was a coup ... and we will not stop demonstrating until we have a civilian government," a masked woman protesting near the presidential palace told AFP on Saturday.
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