Deaths Reported After Sudan Unrest

Khartoum, Sudan (Picture: Christopher Michel/Flickr).

Doctors in Sudan linked with anti-government demonstrators say at least three people have been killed during civil disobedience in the capital, Khartoum.

They are blaming the ruling military council and paramilitary forces for the deaths. 

It comes as the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) is calling on people to stay at home in protest over a deadly crackdown.

The protesters say more than 100 people have been killed since it began last Monday.

The SPA spearheaded months of mass protests that led to the military overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir in April, and called on people to remain in the streets until a full handover of power to civilians.

Protesters have accused the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which grew out of the Janjaweed militias used by Mr al-Bashir in the Darfur conflict in the early 2000s, of leading the nationwide crackdown.

The SPA has called for the force to be disbanded.

It said: "The peaceful resistance by civil disobedience and the general political strike is the fastest and most effective way to topple the military council... and to hand over power to a transitional civilian authority."

It called on international agencies to refrain from dealing with the military council.