SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AFP - Sudan opposition chief demands probe on protest crackdown

14/6/19: AFP - Sudan opposition chief demands probe on protest crackdown

 AFP reports that Sudan's veteran opposition leader Sadiq Al Mahdi called Friday for an "objective" international investigation into last week's deadly crackdown on protesters, after the ruling military council rejected such a probe.

 Al Mahdi told AFP that “the protest’s dispersal was wrong.”

"It's important that the probe is objective and not biased in favour of the authorities,” he added.

Al Mahdi's elected government, the last in Sudan, was toppled in 1989, in an Islamist-backed coup led by Omar Al Bashir.