The nation-wide protests that have begun in Sudan last December demanding the ouster of President Omar al-Beshir and his regime on Saturday escalated to the hugest ever numbers estimated by organizers at more than a million.
The organizers, the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), chose April 6th in commemoration of the popular uprising that ousted Marshal Ja'afer Nimeiry in 1985 with the help of the army.
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