His resignation puts the transition, planned to be completed by 2024, into significant doubt and comes amid a heavy security crackdown on protesters denouncing not only the takeover but the subsequent deal that reinstated Mr Hamdok.<\/p>\n
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Two pro-democracy protesters were killed on Sunday while they were being dispersed by Sudanese security forces, according to the Sudan Doctors Committee.<\/p>\n
The group, which is part of the pro-democracy movement, said one of the killed protesters had been “violently” hit in the head in the capital Khartoum while the other was shot in the city of Omdurman.<\/p>\n
Dozens of other protesters had been injured, the group claimed.<\/p>\n
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A popular uprising in April 2019 led to the overthrow of Omar al Bashir, an alleged war criminal and former military officer who first seized power in 1989.<\/p>\n
In 2009, Mr al Bashir became the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the International Criminal Court and was accused of directing a campaign of mass killing, rape and pillage against civilians in Darfur.<\/p>\n
Following his ousting in 2019, groups in Sudan agreed to a 39-month transition to democracy helmed by a joint civilian and military government.<\/p>\n
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