Three opposition members, acting as mediators between Sudan’s Transitional Military Council and the pro-democracy Alliance for Freedom and Change, were arrested over the weekend. In response, protesters called for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience Saturday. The TMC, a seven-member council of generals, has ruled the country since overthrowing Sudan’s longtime dictator, Omar al-Bashir, in April. “This amounts to a practical response from the military council that effectively rejects the Ethiopian Prime Minister’s mediation effort,” Khalid Omar Youseff, another Alliance leader, told Reuters. The Sudanese Professionals Association, a group of doctors, lawyers, and health workers who organized the original protests in December, called for civil disobedience in response.

Source: Ethiopian News June 09, 2019 13:52 UTC