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Doctors in Sudan say as many as fourteen people were shot dead on Wednesday by security forces as thousands took to the streets to protest against the recent military takeover. Activists had called for mass demonstrations to mark the day when a civilian was supposed to assume the leadership of the governing Sovereign Council. The man who led last month's coup, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, dismissed the government, arrested dozens of politicians and named himself the head of a new Sovereign Council.

Doctors in the capital Khartoum say tear gas has been fired inside hospital buildings and soldiers have prevented some of the wounded from being treated. Many arrests have taken place in neighbourhoods where the electricity had been switched off.

A protester who was out on the streets says the security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition, and that she was next to a twelve-year-old child who was shot. She says that in addition to the internet being down, landlines were also blocked, but that the diaspora outside Sudan has been organising the protests and keeping the protesters updated.

Photo: Sudanese protest against the military coup in Khartoum, Sudan, November 2021 Credit: EPA

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