Sudanese protests

Sudan is on the brink of "full-scale civil war," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned, three months after the army and a powerful paramilitary force clashed in the capital, two neighboring towns, the western Darfur region and other parts of the country.

Sudan's General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok have reached a deal for his return and the release of civilian leaders detained since a military coup, mediators said on Nov. 21.

Sudan's security forces dispersed demonstrators and rounded up more than 100 people on Nov. 7 in the capital of Khartoum, in the latest crackdown on pro-democracy protesters after last month's military coup.

Joint military forces were behind the detention on Oct. 25 of civilian members of Sudan's ruling council and ministers in the transitional government, the information ministry said, in what activists denounced as a "coup".

Sudanese authorities have foiled an attempted coup, the army said on Sept. 21, warding off a challenge to a civilian-military council that has run the country since Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in 2019.   

Turkey and Sudan on Aug. 13 set a target of $2 billion trade in the next five years, said Turkey's vice president.

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"Our trade with Sudan reached $480 million in 2020," Fuat Oktay said during a Turkey-Sudan round-table meeting in the capital Ankara.

Mining is an important area in Turkey's commercial cooperation with Sudan, he added.

Both western and eastern nations have called on a smooth and peaceful transition in Sudan, with a proposal by the ruling "military council" promising the country would have a new civilian government one day after the armed forces overthrew President Omar al-Bashir. 

Thousands of Sudanese protesters pressed on with their campaign against President Omar al-Bashir's rule for a fifth day outside the army headquarters in the capital on April 10, witnesses said.