KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The leader of Sudan’s largest opposition party demanded that President Omar al-Bashir’s administration bow to mass protests and step down, in an address to hundreds of party supporters in a mosque near Khartoum on Friday. “The most important demand is that this regime must leave and be replaced by a transitional government,” Mahdi said at Al-Sayed Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi mosque, which has links to his Umma Party. South of the capital, hundreds of protesters blocked a main road, chanting “peaceful, peaceful, against the thieves”, drawing tear gas volleys from police, a Reuters witness said. Bashir has blamed the protests on foreign “agents” and challenged his rivals to seek power through the ballot box. Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court over charges, which he denies, of masterminding genocide in the Darfur region.

Source: Egypt Independent January 25, 2019 16:18 UTC