Sudanese demonstrators maintain Khartoum sit-in

KHARTOUM (AA) – Hundreds of Sudanese protesters on Wednesday maintained their sit-in outside army headquarters in Khartoum for the fifth day in a row amid continued calls for President Omar al-Bashir to step down, according to witnesses.

Hundreds of citizens took part in the sit-in, while the army deployed additional troops in the vicinity, witnesses said.

“We will not leave until the [al-Bashir] regime falls,” Nasser Jadallah, a protester who has been at the sit-in since it began on Saturday, told Anadolu Agency.

Since Saturday, at least 22 people have been killed in clashes between demonstrators and security forces, which have repeatedly tried to disperse the sit-in by force, according to the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors.

The police, for their part, say that only a single protester has been killed.

Sudan has been shaken by protests since last December, with demonstrators demanding the departure of al-Bashir, who has ruled Sudan since 1989.