Sit-in calling for Sudanese government dissolution grows into thousands

FILE PHOTO: Military-aligned demonstrators gathered in numbers, chant "Down with the government of hunger" in front of the Presidential palace in Khartoum, Sudan, October 16, 2021. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig

KHARTOUM (Reuters) -A sit-in calling on the military to dissolve Sudan's government grew into the thousands on Monday as the country grappled with what its civilian leadership has called the biggest crisis of a two-year-old transition from autocracy.

Protesters, including many who arrived by bus from outside Khartoum, were assembled by a coalition of rebel groups and political parties that have aligned themselves with Sudan's military, which has accused the civilian political parties of mismanagement and monopolising power.