This archive report was first published on 1 July 2019.
On a sweltering Sunday in Khartoum, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets, responding to calls by protest leaders to keep up their 'revolution' and pressure the ruling generals to hand power to civilians.
Despite clouds of tear gas and a large deployment of the feared paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), cheering crowds thronged the avenues of the capital, wrapped in large Sudanese flags, whistling, cheering, and chanting slogans of the uprising.
"Civilian! Civilian!" they shouted, accompanied by a pulsing cacophony of car horns. "Free revolutionaries, we will finish the job!"
Protesters have been locked in a tense standoff with Sudan's ruling military council since the generals took power after ousting longtime leader Omar al-Bashir in April.
As the Islamic holy month of Ramadan drew to a close with the Eid al-Fitr festival in early June, armed men in military fatigues stormed a protest sit-in outside army headquarters in Khartoum, killing at least 128 people, according to doctors close to the protesters.
"We celebrated Eid with the sound of bullets and the blood of martyrs," said protester Hadia on Sunday.
"Our children are being killed in the streets," added the 29-year-old, who wore a colourfully patterned traditional veil.
Marchers on Sunday also passed the homes of some people killed since protests broke in December after the government tripled the price of bread.
"We are all Mahjoub," they chanted in unison, in memory of the student, killed in December during clashes near his university.
Nada Adel, a 28-year-old protester, said the protests would continue until the generals handed over power.
"We're fed up with the military. For decades this country has been ruled by the military. It didn't work and it will not work," she said.
