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Sudan coup: protesters seek to make the country ungovernable

African Union suspends military-ruled Sudan from membership amid pro-democracy protests.

Sudan remains in an uncertain state days after the military took control. Many of the civilian members of the former transitional government are under arrest. This has led the African Union to suspend Sudan's membership and the World Bank has suspended aid.

Meanwhile street protests continue in the capital Khartoum and throughout the country, as plans for a general strike on Saturday gather pace - many oil workers and doctors are already on strike and some businesses remain closed.

Muzan Alneel, a Fellow at The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, has been to the protests herself and seen how the protesters are changing their tactics after violent skirmishes with the armed forces.

"The tactic that is used by the protesters is that they build the barricades... and then keep their distance from them. And whenever the armed forces remove the barricades they just stay away and then rebuild them right after they leave."

"The civil disobedience, in my opinion, is actually the biggest process of resilience. It might not be an event and it will not have any dramatic moments but it's an ongoing pressure over the current leadership of the coup who basically cannot run the country."

(Pic: Protests in Sudan against the coup; Credit: EPA)

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