Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) on Tuesday announced it had cancelled all previous agreements with the main opposition coalition and called for snap elections following deadly violence in the capital Khartoum.
This is after security forces moved to disperse the main protest camp outside the Defence Ministry.
The announcement came as the military faced mounting international condemnation for their violent attack on protesters in the capital, Khartoum, which reportedly left at least 30 dead.
Talks between the ruling Transitional Military Council and the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF) alliance had come to a standstill despite weeks of negotiations.
But the TMC’s head, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, said in a statement broadcast on state television that they had decided to “stop negotiating with the Alliance for Freedom and Change and cancel what had been agreed on”.
He also said that an election in nine months time would take place under “regional and international supervision”.
The announcement came after leaders of the pro-democracy movement, who demand that a civilian government take over the running of the country, said they were stopping all contact with the TMC and called a general strike.
The military chief promised an investigation into the deadly events.
