Sudan: Country's Anti-War Demo Flops

9 September 2011

Khartoum — Sudanese opposition parties have failed to hold their planned protest on Friday against the war in the country's flashpoints of South Kordofan and Blue Nile after the authorities refused to allow the action.

The National Consensus Forces (NCF), an umbrella of mainstream opposition parties in Sudan, last week called for the anti-war demonstration and asked supporters to march in protest following Friday's prayer to the presidential palace in Khartoum and hand a memorandum dubbed "the declaration of Sudan."

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