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The African Union (AU) announced on Thursday that it had suspended Sudan's membership in the continental organization immediately until a civilian transitional authority was established in the country, which is witnessing an escalation of violence.

The African Union's Peace and Security Council said in its Twitter account that the African Union "immediately suspended the participation of the Republic of Sudan in all activities of the African Union until the establishment of an effective transitional city authority. This is the only way to allow Sudan to emerge from the current crisis .

A diplomatic source at the Ethiopian embassy in Khartoum confirmed that Prime Minister Abe Ahmed was visiting the Sudanese capital to mediate between the Transitional Military Council and the opposition coalition on the transition to democracy.

The source told Reuters news agency that Abe would meet with members of the Transitional Military Council and figures from the opposition Freedom and Change Forces movement during the one-day visit.

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A spokeswoman said the British Foreign Office summoned the Sudanese ambassador to express concern over the violence in Khartoum after security forces broke up a protest rally in the capital this week, killing dozens.

The Sudanese Ministry of Health announced earlier that the official number of those killed in the violence that erupted on Monday rose to 61, after the number was 46, while the Central Sudan Doctors Committee, participating in the coalition «Declaration of the forces of freedom and change», which led the demonstrations since December , The number of 108 dead.

Russia renewed its rejection of foreign interference in Sudan and called for "restraint of the extremists so that elections could be held," according to a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The United Nations has temporarily relocated some of its staff in Sudan because of the "security situation" in the country.

The fate of SPLM deputy chairman Yasser Sa'id Arman is still unknown, after the security forces, the ISF and intelligence forces denied his arrest. A military force stormed Arman's house and arrested him and took him to an unknown destination. Three days ago, voluntary organizations, activists and doctors have been sending distress calls, urging doctors to come to hospitals to provide treatment and to treat the wounded and wounded, and urging citizens to provide hospitals with medical supplies, medicines and first aid kits.
Khartoum turned into a battleground between government forces, "the army and the rapid support" and peaceful protesters, and watched thousands of armed vehicles and soldiers, firing indiscriminately, leading to a surge in the toll of the sit-in of the General Command. According to witnesses, it is the rapid support forces that control the scene and raise terror and target civilians, under the pretext of opening the roads on which the protesters are barricaded.

Negotiations between the opposition and the transitional military junta have stalled following the Council's break-up of the sit-in since the fall of President Omar al-Bashir on April 11, and aims to pressure the military to hand over power to civilians. Since that date, thousands of Sudanese have been sitting outside the Sudanese army command, To negotiate between the forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change that they represent, and the Transitional Military Council to hand over power to a civilian transitional government, with the military's belligerent promises not to break the sit-in by force.

However, army forces, rapid support and security swept through the sit-in and dispersed the sit-in using excessive force and bullets, killing dozens, injuring hundreds and hundreds of others missing.

Following the invasion of the sit-in field, the President of the Transitional Military Council, Abdelfattah Burhan, canceled his agreements with the leaders of the protesters and announced elections for nine months after agreeing with them on a civilian authority for 3 years.

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