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The Sudanese security and defense council held an emergency meeting, Tuesday chaired by head of the Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, to discuss the developments protests took place in the Red Sea state during the past two days.
“The council has taken clear decisions relating to freedom of demonstrations and sit-ins, provided that they are not to be at the expense of important and vital utilities such as closing national roads and ports due to their direct influence on the national economy and Sudan’s external relations,” said Yassin Ibrahim Yassin, Sudan’s defense minister, in a statement.
“The meeting agreed that eastern Sudan suffers from deep-rooted problems, but their solutions should not be the way that was followed,” he added.
The Red Sea state has been witnessing protests since Sunday, which led to the closure of the southern harbor of Port Sudan, while protesters blocked a main road linking the state and the capital Khartoum in rejection to the signing of the “eastern track” included in the peace agreement recently signed in Juba.
