REUTERS/Umit Bektas ReutersKHARTOUM (Reuters) - Security forces fired tear gas to disperse dozens of students demonstrating against the ruling military council at a financial academy in the heart of Sudan's capital Khartoum on Thursday, a Reuters witness said. Demonstrations in Khartoum have become rare since security forces broke up a sit-in outside the Defense Ministry on June 3, leaving more than 100 people dead, according to medical sources. The sit-in had become the focal point of protests against former president Omar al-Bashir and the military council that ousted him on April 11. Its dispersal caused the collapse of stalled talks between the military council and a coalition of opposition and protest groups over how to manage a transition towards elections. In previous drafts, the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) opposition coalition was to make up two-thirds of the council.

Source: Ethiopian News June 27, 2019 15:03 UTC