Sudan's opposition rejects military council's election plan after violent outburst

Sudanese protesters in Omdurman.
(Image credit: AHMED MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)

Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, was the site of violence on Monday, after security forces stormed a protest camp outside the Sudanese defense ministry, resulting in 35 deaths. It was the worst violence in the country since former President Omar Al-Bashir was ousted in April, Al Jazeera reports. But it reportedly will not prevent the protesters from continuing their movement.

Just a day later, the opposition rejected a plan from the transitional military council, which has succeeded Al-Bashir, to hold national elections within nine months, as opposed to the originally planned three years.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.