Troops largely refused al-Bashir’s orders to fire on the protesters, and the military removed him from power on April 11. ___AN UNWIELDY COALITIONSunday’s marches provided a powerful show of unity, but internal divides among the protesters threaten to undermine their struggle going forward. The White House has expressed support for those efforts and has appointed a special envoy to Sudan. The generals welcomed it as the basis for future talks, but the protesters refuse to meet with the military until it fully accepts the roadmap. “We are back to square one,” said Amany el-Taweel, a Sudan expert at Egypt’s Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies.

Source: Ethiopian News July 03, 2019 05:48 UTC