Khartoum — El Sadig El Mahdi, Head of the National Umma Party and chairman of the Sudan Call coalition, has strongly condemned the killing of demonstrators and the excessive violence against them during the past month. He likened the current regime in Khartoum to the days of the Anglo-Egyptian colonisation.
During his Friday sermon at El Ansar mosque Wad Nubawi on Friday, El Mahdi, Imam of the El Ansar [followers of his ancestor Mohamed Ahmed El Mahdi who, in 1881, stood up against Anglo-Egyptian rule in Sudan], called on the military and regular forces to refrain from shedding blood of the innocent, pointing out that professional honour and citizenship rights prevent this.
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