KHARTOUM - Sudan's military rulers said on Tuesday that six members of the security forces were killed during protests, as tensions mounted over the makeup of a new joint civilian-military council.
KHARTOUM - Sudan's military rulers said on Tuesday that six members of the security forces were killed during protests, as tensions mounted over the makeup of a new joint civilian-military council.
But the two sides are at odds over its composition, with the military pushing for a 10-member council including seven military representatives and three civilians. "In different incidents, six people from the security forces were killed and 16 wounded," the council's deputy chief Mohamed Hamadan Dagolo, widely known as Himeidti, said.
Five days later, the army took power through a transitional military council, having deposed Bashir, after months of protests that began with unrest over a tripling of bread prices.'COPYCAT OF REGIME' Late on Monday, a Sudanese protest group said the army was trying to remove barricades and disperse the sit-in outside army headquarters, but witnesses said troops had not moved in.
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