Sudan unrest: Chorus for Bashir resignation grow

Bloomberg

Protesters maintained a sit-in outside Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s residence for a third day, urging the army to support their uprising against the long-time ruler as the North African nation’s political unrest entered a new stage.
Security forces fired tear gas in a bid to disperse the thousands-strong crowds at military headquarters in the capital, Khartoum, where the 75-year-old president has a home. Soldiers later closed roads around the sit-in, which some activists described as an attempt to protect them from attacks that have left seven people dead since they gathered.
“We are not less than the
Algerians — we’ve made sacrifices to maintain our dignity and bring freedom and democracy,” said protester Nasur Ahmed, referring to recent unrest that forced Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign after 20 years in power. “Al-Bashir and his entire inner circle should step down now.”
The gathering was called to mark the anniversary of a 1985 uprising that led to Sudan’s army overthrowing then-President Gaafar al-Nimeiri.