Bashir to step down, airport closed, protesters take to the streets in Sudan - reports
• Reports on political Arrests of former officials, guards, party leaders • it’s 7:30 am in KhartoumSeveral military vehicles carrying troops entered the army compound in the early hours of Thursday, witnesses said.
The group spearheading the nationwide demonstrations urged residents of the capital to mass outside army headquarters. That came after 11 people, including six members of the security forces, were killed on Tuesday during demonstrations in the capital, government spokesman Hassan Ismail told the official SUNA news agency.
Earlier this week, the US, Britain and Norway for the first time threw their weight behind the protesters. Sudan, along with Iran, Syria and North Korea, is on Washington's blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism.
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