Sudan's military council calls for snap elections in wake of deadly protests

Transitional Military Council urges fresh elections within nine months and cancels agreements with opposition

Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) has called for snap elections and said it had cancelled all previous agreements with the main opposition coalition.

Tuesday’s announcement follows deadly violence in the capital, Khartoum, in which more than 35 people are believed to have died when security forces moved to disperse a main protest camp outside the defence ministry.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2MGyfhN