FILE PHOTO: Sudanese demonstrators march as they participate in anti-government protests in Khartoum, Sudan January 24, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The leader of Sudan's largest opposition party demanded that President Omar al-Bashir's administration bow to mass protests and step down, in an address to hundreds of party supporters in a mosque near Khartoum on Friday.
After Sadiq al-Mahdi's remarks at Friday prayers, hundreds of protesters then marched through Omdurman, across the River Nile from the capital, and police fired teargas to try to break up the rally.
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