Al-Jazeera says bureau chief detained by Sudanese forces

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The Qatar-based outer quality web Al-Jazeera said Sunday its bureau main successful Sudan was detained by information forces.

The web said connected Twitter that Sudanese forces raided the location of Al-Musallami al-Kabbashi.

The improvement comes a time aft information forces fired unrecorded ammunition and teardrop state to disperse protesters denouncing the military’s tightening grip connected the country. At slightest 5 radical were killed and respective were wounded, according to activists.

Al-Jazeera did not elaborate connected al-Kabbashi’s detention and Sudanese officials could not beryllium instantly reached for comment.

Thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets crossed Sudan connected Saturday to rally against the subject coup past month. The takeover has drawn planetary disapproval and monolithic protests successful the streets of the superior of Khartoum and elsewhere successful the country.

The killings Saturday took spot successful Khartoum and its duplicate metropolis of Omdurman, and the dormant included 4 killed by gunshots and 1 who died from a teardrop state canister, according to the Sudan Doctors Committee. Several different protesters were wounded, including from gunshots, it said.

The rallies, called by the pro-democracy movement, came 2 days aft coup person Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan reappointed himself caput of the Sovereign Council, Sudan’s interim governing body. Thursday’s determination angered the pro-democracy confederation and frustrated the United States and different countries that person urged the generals to reverse their coup.

The Sudanese subject seized powerfulness Oct. 25, dissolving the transitional authorities and arresting dozens of officials and politicians. The takeover upended a fragile planned modulation to antiauthoritarian rule, much than 2 years aft a fashionable uprising forced the removal of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir and his Islamist government.