Hundreds of thousands of protesters have joined a sit-in outside Sudan's defence ministry to press the ruling military council to hand over power to a civilian administration.
The Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF) alliance said on Thursday it has submitted a draft constitutional document containing its vision for the transitional period to the Transitional Military Council (TMC), but the TMC has shown no sign of willingness to relinquish ultimate authority.
Leading a spokesmen for the DFCF, to call for a ‘million-strong march to assert our main demands for civilian rule,’ the protesters have won support from Western governments for their demands, whilst the TMC have received an estimated $3 billion from the Gulf Arab states to maintain an orderly transition.