Hundreds of protestors were injured on Sunday as security police used tear gas and live bullets to disperse demonstrators marching to Khartoum's presidential palace to condemn the October military coup.
The protesters held a sit-in outside the facility, and sources told Middle East Eye that some activists gained access to the premises for a brief while before being ejected.
Sudan's health ministry reported Sunday's protests injured at least 123 persons.
"The people want the downfall of Burhan," protestors chanted against current military head General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who led the coup on 25 October.
Additionally, the protests observed the third anniversary of the burning of a governing party building, which sparked a popular revolt that finally resulted in President Omar al-fall. Bashir's
The police and demonstrators engaged in a series of cat and mouse street confrontations in and around the streets around the palace.
Earlier on Sunday, there had been heightened security measures, including the deployment of the feared Rapid Security Forces, the shutdown of Khartoum's bridges and major roadways, and extensive arrests of activists and members of resistance organizations.
Witnesses reported that some military officers aided the demonstrators by unlocking barricades and sections of the bridges connecting the twin cities of Khartoum and Omdurman.
Ezaldin Ali, standing in front of the palace, told Middle East Eye that the resistance committees were opposed to any compromise with the army or with Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who had been placed under house arrest following the coup but was reinstalled on 21 November.
Ali stated that demonstrators would continue to use a variety of measures to bring down the existing government.
"We raised our clear and radical slogans declaring that there will be no partnership with the army, no concessions, and no negotiations, and that we will forever oppose military rule," he explained.
'We stand shoulder to shoulder with our brothers and sisters'
Numerous demonstrators had trekked hundreds of kilometers from various country regions, including Gezira and Sennar States in central Sudan, El Obeid in the west, and Atbara city in River Nile State.
Ahmed Mahmoud, an Al Hasahisa in Gezira, told MEE that he and others went more than 100 kilometers to join the protests over four days.
"We left Al Hasahisa four days ago and were joined by thousands of people from villages on the route between our city and Khartoum."
The resistance committees have stated that they intend to maintain the palace's sit-in until military control is abolished.
According to sources within the sovereign council, the administration is considering calling an early election next year, ahead of the scheduled polls in 2023, to resolve the situation.
Hamdok stated in a statement on Saturday that Sudan's revolution had suffered a "major setback" and that the country's unity and stability were threatened by stubbornness on all sides.
"We face today a major setback to the path of our revolution that threatens the country's security, unity, and stability, which alerts us to the beginning of a backslide into a pit that leaves us neither a nation nor a revolution," Hamdok stated.
