Opposition calls for international investigation into killings

Here's Middle East Eye's latest wrap of the day's events in Sudan, focusing on calls by the opposition on Arab states to end their support for the military council, and for an international investigation into Monday's deaths.

The United Nations Security Council, which is currently chaired by Kuwait, will discuss the situation in the country in a closed session on Tuesday.

AFP reported that Rapid Support Forces units were firing live ammunition to disperse protesters who had erected barricades on Tuesday in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, citing local witnesses that it spoke to by phone.

"We gathered in our square as we usually do every year but the Rapid Support Forces and the police fired teargas and soundbombs at us and after the prayers the youth closed the main street by putting up barricades," a resident of the Bahri area told AFP.