Protester killed as Sudanese rally against coup, hardship

Sudanese protester was killed Thursday as thousands rallied against last year’s military coup and worsening living conditions, medics and an AFP correspondent said.

According to the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors, a 23-year-old protester was killed after he took “a live bullet to the chest by coup forces” in Khartoum during Thursday’s demonstrations.

His death brings to 93 the number of people killed in a crackdown on mass protests since Army Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan led a military coup on October 25, 2021, according to a toll kept by this committee.

The military power grab drew wide international condemnation and upended a transition to civilian rule that had followed the 2019 ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir.