By AFP More by this AuthorUnited Nations, United StatesThe UN Security Council will meet next Wednesday in an informal session to address the latest developments in Sudan as demonstrations against military rule in the African nation continue, diplomatic sources said. A common position of the Security Council "is not expected, as China and Russia would oppose it," a diplomat said on condition of anonymity. The meeting will allow the UN special representative for Sudan, Volker Perthes, to brief Security Council members on conditions there since Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok resigned Sunday amid protests against the junta. The United States and European Union warned Sudan's military against naming its own prime minister after Hamdok quit. On Thursday three demonstrators were shot dead in the capital Khartoum and its suburbs, according to doctors and witnesses, as people gathered there and elsewhere in the country to protest against military rule.

Source: Daily Nation January 08, 2022 09:17 UTC