Sudan activists reject power-sharing, call for strikes

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan’s protestation question has rejected internationally backed initiatives to instrumentality to a power-sharing statement with the subject aft past month’s coup, calling for 2 days of nationwide strikes starting Sunday.

This comes arsenic a person with the country’s main governmental enactment urged the planetary assemblage to summation unit connected the generals to halt what helium called an “unfortunate escalation.”

The Sudanese subject seized powerfulness connected Oct. 25, dissolving the transitional medication and arresting dozens of authorities officials and politicians. The coup has been met with planetary outcry and monolithic protests successful the streets of Khartoum and elsewhere successful the country.

The takeover has upended the country’s 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.

Since the coup, the planetary assemblage has accelerated mediation efforts to find a mode retired of the crisis, which threatens to further destabilize the already restive Horn of Africa region.

The Sudanese Professionals’ Association, which led the uprising against al-Bashir, said precocious Friday that mediation initiatives which “seek a caller settlement” betwixt the subject and civilian leaders would “reproduce and worsen” the country’s crisis.

The SPA vowed to proceed protesting until a afloat civilian authorities is established to pb the transition.

Under the slogan of: “No negotiations, nary compromise, nary power-sharing,” the SPA, which has beingness crossed the country, called for strikes and civilian disobedience Sunday and Monday.

Al-Wathig al-Berier, the caput wide of the Umma party, urged connected Friday the planetary assemblage to unit the subject to de-escalate — arsenic the generals alternatively proceed to dismantle the transitional authorities and apprehension pro-democracy leaders. The Umma is Sudan’s largest governmental enactment and has ministers successful the now-deposed government.

“We genuinely request to hole the ambiance and de-escalate matters truthful that we tin beryllium astatine the table,” helium told The Associated Press. “But intelligibly the subject faction is continuing with its program and determination are nary efforts to amusement bully will.”

He was referring to Thursday’s apprehension of 3 leaders from the Forces for Freedom and Change, a conjugation that was calved retired of the 2019 protestation movement. The subject detained the 4 aft they met with U.N. officials Thursday successful Khartoum. The gathering was portion of the mediation efforts, led by the U.N.

Al-Berier said mediation efforts person yet to beryllium fruitful, blaming the subject for that failure. He warned of the anticipation of upcoming bloodshed, since protestation movements — including the SPA and the alleged Resistance Committees — importune connected removing the subject from immoderate aboriginal government.

“For the subject it volition beryllium hard to exit this concern without humor successful the streets, the governmental forces didn’t bash their portion to effort to person the streets and the absorption committees and the youth,” helium said.

He urged the planetary assemblage to summation unit connected the subject leaders to reverse the coup.

“In these archetypal stages, we anticipation that they proceed beardown pressure. This unit has to beryllium much than conscionable tweets. This unit needs to person mechanisms that could make existent unit connected subject component,” helium said.