Sudanese demonstrators maintain Khartoum sit-in

KHARTOUM (AA) – Hundreds of Sudanese protesters on Wednesday maintained their sit-in outside army headquarters in Khartoum for the fifth day in a row amid continued calls for President Omar al-Bashir to step down, according to witnesses. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Hundreds of citizens took part in the sit-in, while the army deployed additional troops in the vicinity, witnesses said.</p> <p><br></p> <p>“We will not leave until the [al-Bashir] regime falls,” Nasser Jadallah, a protester who has been at the sit-in since it began on Saturday, told Anadolu Agency.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Since Saturday, at least 22 people have been killed in clashes between demonstrators and security forces, which have repeatedly tried to disperse the sit-in by force, according to the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors. </p> <p><br></p> <p>The police, for their part, say that only a single protester has been killed.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Sudan has been shaken by protests since last December, with demonstrators demanding the departure of al-Bashir, who has ruled Sudan since 1989.