On December 19, tens of thousands took to the streets in Sudan’s capital of Khartoum and nearby city Umm Durman on the second anniversary of the Sudan’s December 2018 evolution, which resulted in the removal and criminal prosecution of the Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019. Less than a week later, the streets were filled again following the murder of yet another young activist at the hands of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a militia backed by the transitional government. Following this latest assassination, the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), a trade union coalition, launched the “Know Your Right” campaign to demand the dissolution of the RSF.
The right wing and the military have formed an alliance in opposition to leftist, union, and people’s forces. Demonstrators want power to be returned to civilian forces and are calling out the slow pace of change following the Revolution and the ruling government’s betrayals. On January 6, the transitional government signed the Zionist “Abraham Accords,” which are debt-forgiveness bribes by the U.S. and World Bank in exchange for Sudan ‘normalizing’ relations with apartheid Israel at the expense of the Palestinian people. Progressive activists as well as political parties within Sudan mobilized to reject the government’s position.