Sudan’s leading general on Sunday lifted a state of emergency that was imposed in the country following the October coup he led. The country experienced over the weekend yet another day of protest against the military coup.
The decision by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of Sudan’s ruling sovereign council, came hours after the Security and Defense Council, Sudan’s highest body that decides on security matters suggested it.
The news came the same day as the U.N. envoy for Sudan regretted the killing of 2 anti-coup protestors in Khartoum on Saturday. The two were killed during protests in Khartoum’s Kalakla neighbourhood.
