Thousands of Sudanese held a second day of protests Sunday outside the army's headquarters in Khartoum and in the vicinity chanting slogans against President Omar al-Bashir's government, witnesses said.
Sudanese protesters shout anti-government slogans outside the military headquarters in the capital Khartoum on April 6, 2019. AFP/-
Chanting “peace, justice, freedom” they massed outside the army headquarters which also houses Bashir’s official residence and the defence ministry, many of them having spent the night there. On Saturday, thousands of men and women launched the biggest anti-government rally since protests first erupted in December, reaching for the first time the fortified army headquarters.
And in a separate demonstration on Saturday a protester died in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman, police said.
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