Doctors and State oil workers to join civil disobedience movement

Workers at Sudapet, Sudan's state petroleum company, will join a nationwide civil disobedience movement declared by trade unions in response to the coup, the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) said on Wednesday.

A group of neighbourhood committees in Khartoum have announced a schedule of further barricades and protests leading to what it said would be a "march of millions" on Saturday, Reuters reported.

"We announce joining the civil disobedience in support of the people’s decision backing the civil democratic transformation and until this demand is achieved," the SPA, a group of trade unions, said in a statement.

The Unified Doctors' Office, which is made up of different unions, said: "As we promised and previously announced we would enter a general strike across Sudan in the event of a coup, we are keeping to our word and timing completely."