KHARTOUM—Sudanese soldiers intervened to protect several thousand demonstrators calling for an end to President Omar al-Bashir’s rule on April 8 after security forces tried to break up the sit-in, witnesses and activists said.
For the first time in some three months of unrest, a group of prominent opposition leaders joined protesters outside the defense ministry in Khartoum. They addressed demonstrators who have been massed for two days outside the ministry compound and repeated their demand for Bashir and his government to step down immediately, witnesses said.
