Several vehicles carrying intelligence agency members and riot police arrived in the early hours Monday at the protest site, witnesses told AFP.
KHARTOUM – Sudan's army deployed around its Khartoum headquarters Monday as thousands of protesters urging the military to join calls for leader Omar al-Bashir's resignation defied tear gas to demonstrate for a third day, witnesses said.
Witnesses said soldiers were putting up barricades in streets near the compound after NISS personnel and police failed to dislodge the demonstrators. "Security forces of the regime are trying to disperse the sit-in by force," the organisers called the Alliance for Freedom and Change said in a statement.'UNPRECEDENTED'
The European Union said an "unprecedented" number of people had come out calling for change since Saturday. The demonstration coincided with a nationwide blackout that the electricity ministry blamed on a technical glitch.
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