MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SUDAN

 

   Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir has been removed by the military after months of anti- government protests against his three decade rule.
   General Ahmed Ibn Auf was sworn in on Thursday 11, April 2019, evening as Chief of a new military council that will rule the country for two years, hours after declaring that Sudan's long time ruler had been overthrown and arrested.
   Since, December, Sudan has witnessed persistent protests sparked by rising food prices that quickly escalated into wider calls for Al-Bashir resignation.
   The latest crisis escalated on April 6, 2019 when thousands of demonstrators began a sit-in outside the army headquarters in the capital Khartoum. Dozens of people have been killed in protest-related violence since the start of demonstrations.