Police in Khartoum use tear gas in protest clashes

Sudanese demonstrators took to the streets on Sunday in protests over the leadership crisis in the country.

Footage by the Omdurman Resistance Commitees posted on their Facebook page showed protesters on the streets of Khartoum and police firing tear gas.

Resistance committees are revolutionary bodies in neighbourhoods and regions who coordinate revolutionary action, monitoring the situation on the ground through contact with the Central Doctors Commitee and activists outside the country.

It was unclear if the protests happened before or after it was announced that Sudan's deposed prime minister signed a deal with the military that will see him reinstated, almost a month after a military coup put him under house arrest.

According to the deal, the military will also release government officials and politicians arrested since the October 25 coup.

The country's top general, Abdel Fattah Burhan, said in televised statements that Abdalla Hamdok will lead an independent technocratic Cabinet until elections can be held.

It remains unclear how much power the government would hold. It would still remain under military oversight.