Protesters On Streets Again On Day of Power Sharing Deal

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Khartoum on Monday, marking a year since a transitional power-sharing deal was struck in Sudan Africa News network reported.

The demonstrators are unsatisfied with the current government and are demanding quickened political reform.

It was later reported police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.The crowds, waving Sudanese flags, gathered outside the Cabinet's headquarters in the capital, Khartoum, to hand over a list of demands, including the formation of a legislative body.

Protests last year led to the military overthrow of former autocratic President Omar al-Bashir.

A military-civilian government now rules the country.

Elections could go ahead in late 2022.

Protesters also took to the streets in Khartoum's twin city, Omdurman, and several other cities.

Monday's protests marked a year after the generals signed a power-sharing agreement with the Forces for Declaration of Freedom and Change, a coalition of opposition parties and movements representing the protesters.

Comments

AFRICA'S TOP 5 "UNAFRICAN" PRESIDENTS OF THE YEAR 2018

"Botswana's impressive performance, Tanzania's great strides, Ethiopian reforms leaves the mark" says our online readers. By Africa 54 Magazine, Accra, Ghana, 31 Dec, 2018 As we end the year 2018 and welcome the incredible 2019, our online magazine readers were asked to simply comment: who is your best African President for the year 2018- a leader who is not common to have one in Africa "UnAfrican" because of his/her incredible performance, leadership, focus, courage and great result. And these are the results for 2018... #1 IAN KHAMA-Botswana: Always cool in leading the small country into tremendous social and economic transfomations including quality infrastructure, access to social services and j...

Tanzania's Most Peaceful Election: Why Opposition Got Flabbergasted?

By John Njoroge: The ruling party and President John Pombe Magufuli are both leading by far (update: final results are now out, see an update note at the end of the article), trailing the weak opposition in Tanzania following the 28th October General elections. President John Pombe Magufuli of Tanzania As usual, as the results were pouring out, the oppostion parties, activists and western propaganda machination, all over, resorted to one simple phallacy; whether the election was free and fair. Actually I heard the opposition rejecting the results on the basis of some irregularities. Let me address that first before I share what I believe to be the reasons for weaker oppostion this time around in Tanzania. The term free and fair has no one meaning in electoral governance across the world; countries abhor diverse socio-political systems and so is how they manage their elections. The fact that all political parties too...

Tanzania’s Manufacturing Industries Fastest Growing Sector in Eastern Africa

By Desai Magobhe, Nairobi TANZANIA is yet again on the lime lights as its manufacturing sector continues to flourish, emerging as one of the fastest growing on the continent contributing 26 percent. According to Africa Economic Outlook 2019 report released on 4 th April, 2019 by Africa Development Bank (AfDB), the achievements came from Tanzania’s landmark decision to revive its manufacturing sector in 2015; today the sector has become the biggest contributor to the GDP among the 14 countries of the Eastern Africa region. This is good news for Tanzania which embarked on a set of reforms which include industrializing the economy after many years of relying on export of unprocessed agricultural produce. The annual report released by the AfDB is a nod to Tanzania’s ongoing reforms implemented by Dr John Magufuli and his Government since he came to power in 2015. Overall, manufacturing-driven growth in Africa, led to positive structural change, with poten...

Africa54

Search This Blog