Security forces fired tear gas to try to disperse thousands of people protesting against military rule in Sudan's capital Khartoum on Sunday in defiance of a ban on demonstrations.
Crowds got within 2 kilometres of the presidential palace on the banks of the Blue Nile before security forces blocked their way, a Reuters reporter said.
"We go out to demonstrate so that our children can live under a civil, democratic state in the future. We won't allow our children's future to be confiscated," protester Mohamed Abdelrahman, a 51-year-old government employee, said.
