Live: Latest on Sudan crackdown
Live Updates
Sudanese opposition groups called for people to gather in public places in every city and village on Tuesday for Eid prayers and funeral prayers for the victims of Monday’s crackdown.
Here’s images and videos posted on Twitter of protesters in Port Sudan following Eid prayers.
This footage shows preparations for Eid prayers in front of the barricades in Khartoum’s Jebra neighbourhood.
Sudan's military on Tuesday cancelled a power-transfer agreement with protesters and called for elections within nine months, a day after forcefully breaking up a weeks-long sit-in, leaving 35 dead.
The Transitional Military Council (TMC) ousted president Omar al-Bashir in April after months of protests against his authoritarian rule and had agreed a three-year transition period to a civilian administration.
But army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the TMC, announced in a televised statement the plan had been ditched and an election would take place under "regional and international supervision".
"The military council decides on the following: cancelling what was agreed on and stopping negotiating with the Alliance for Freedom and Change, and to call for general elections within a period not exceeding nine months," Burhan said.
By late on Monday, rights groups and government leaders across the world were condemning the Sudanese military's crackdown on peaceful protesters earlier in the day in Khartoum.
At least 30 people were killed after Sudanese military forces attacked and dismantled a sit-in on Monday in Khartoum. Hundreds more were injured, as forces set fire to tents and beat whoever challenged them, witnesses said.
"They entered and started firing live bullets into the air and they targeted anyone who resisted and burned the tents to the ground," Gamal Adam, a protester who had been manning barricades leading into the sit-in, told MEE.
Protesters are calling on demonstrations to continue on Tuesday, despite Monday's widespread crackdown by the ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC).
On Twitter, US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called on the Sudanese military to immediately stop its "shocking use of violence".
The UK and Germany have called for the UN Security Council to meet and discuss the crisis in Sudan, following Monday's deadly protests, AFP reported, citing unnamed diplomats.
The closed-door meeting is expected to be held on Tuesday, they said.
The New York-based Physicians for Human Rights also called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to launch an "urgent fact-finding mission".
"Delays in accountability for human rights violations and the lack of a concerted international response to the egregious violations in Sudan have exacerbated a volatile situation and further endangered the Sudanese people," the group said in a statement.
The umbrella group behind months of opposition protests in Sudan has called on "the masses" to take to the streets across the country on Tuesday.
The Sudanese Professionals' Association asked people to protest after Eid prayers and to pray for those killed in today's violent crackdown on the Khartoum sit-in.
"We also call for continuing the peaceful gatherings and organised marches everywhere after prayers," the group said on Twitter.
The SPA also asked demonstrators to close major roads and bridges in order to "to bring public life to a complete halt".
The death toll from the Sudanese military's crackdown on protesters in Khartoum has gone up to at least 30 people, Reuters news agency reported, citing an opposition-linked doctors' committee.
The committee said the number was likely to rise as many casualties are still unaccounted for.
Meanwhile, Sudan's public prosecutor has set up a committee to investigate the violence, according to state news agency SUNA.
US State Department official Tibor Nagy condemned the Sudanese military's "coordinated and unlawful violence" against peaceful protesters in Khartoum.
Nagy said the military's crackdown "mirrors some of the worst offenses" committed under ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
"We call on Sudan’s military authorities to rein in these abusive forces and protect the people of #Sudan," Nagy tweeted.
The head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has said she "utterly deplored" the reports that the Sudanese military had attacked the Khartoum protest camp.
“The protestors in Sudan have over the past few months been an inspiration, peacefully demonstrating and working to engage with the Transitional Military Council,” said Michele Bachelet, in a statement.
"I utterly deplore the apparent use of excessive force in the protest camps. Reports that live ammunition was used by security forces next to, and even inside, medical facilities are extremely alarming. I urge the security forces to immediately halt such attacks, and to ensure safe, unimpeded access to medical care for all."
She called on the transitional council to "make a concerted effort towards a swift transition to a civilian administration" in line with the protesters' demands.
“The use of excessive force must be promptly and independently investigated and those responsible brought to justice. The human rights violations that have marked Sudan’s history, and sparked the sustained protests over the past six months, must not be allowed to continue.
"This is a real setback.”
Video footage of Monday's attack posted online appears to show bodies in the street as protesters are urged to run for safety amid volleys of gunfire. MEE has not independently verified the footage.
Eyewitnesses and opposition groups have accused Rapid Support Forces milita units of involvement in Monday's attack on protesters, although there are reports of Sudanese army soldiers and police also participating.
The head of the RSF, Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo, commonly known as Hemeti, is the vice president of the military council and seen by many as the key figure and most public-facing member of the transitional administration.
In recent days he has also served a diplomatic role, hosting iftars with dignitaries from the US and Saudi Arabia, among other countries, as well as flying to Saudi Arabia to meet Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
But he was distrusted by many protesters, with posters displayed at the camp accusing him of becoming a "new Bashir". Hemeti is a former leader of the Janjaweed militia in Darfur, which was involved in a government campaign that killed at least 200,000 people, according to the UN.
Analysts told Middle East Eye last week that Hemeti had sought to style himself as a man of the people while also seeking to ensure that power did not slip from the grasp of the institutions that dominated the country under Bashir#s 30-year rule.
For almost two months, Sudan's sit-in has been a hive of activity, regularly attracting tens of thousands of protesters and becoming a platform for both creativity and expression.
But over the past week there has been increasing tension around it and protest leaders repeatedly warned of the threat of security forces trying to disperse the protest outside the military headquarters.
The military said this morning's operation was only intended to clear a site near the sit-in, where they claimed a group was causing disruption, but video footage and witnesses have confirmed uniformed troops were seen in several other areas of the sit-in, almost completely clearing the site.
MEE's reporter at the sit-in said soldiers entered the sit-in from several directions, breaking up the protest and burning tents.
Today's attack showed the Transitional Military Council (TMC) was never serious about handing power to civilians, analyst Rashid Abdi, former Horn of Africa project director for Crisis Group, told MEE.
"It wants a solution on its own terms. And that was not palatable to [the] protest movement. Instead of compromise it opted for violence," he said, warning the "risk of escalation is real."
He said the international community needs a stronger response that tells the military council it will be held responsible for civilian deaths and reigns in the military's "foreign enablers".
The military council has been in close contact with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, receiving financial and political support from them.
While the military has claimed the sit-in site is safe to return to, protest leaders say it has been emptied.
The aftermath shown in videos and images seems to support the protesters, showing burned tents and the usually bustling sit-in site almost deserted aside from uniformed forces roaming through it.
Chaos and insanity have become the words Sudanese protesters repeatedly turn to in describing today's events.
Though the military council said it only tried to disperse an area outside the sit-in, images shared online show burned tents at the sit-in.
Activist contrasts images of burned tents to military council's claims that they didn't burn down the tents inside the sit-in, telling protesters they could safely return to the site
There have also been widespread reports of troops firing in other parts of Khartoum and its sister city Omdurman as well as dispersals of sit-ins in cities around Sudan.
Several videos being shared online appear to show Sudanese forces beating citizens in the streets.
