The junta, which seized power in the west African country in a July 2023 coup, last week dissolved five judicial unions, saying that they "are not working for the proper functioning of the public justice service".
On Thursday, the secretary general of the powerful SAMAN magistrates' union, which was among the five dissolved organisations, Abdoul-Nasser Bagna Abdourahamane, was removed from the judiciary by decree.
The next day, its deputy secretary general Mahamadou Moussa was also struck off from the judiciary.
No official reasons were given for the decisions, which the union on Thursday called an "unprecedented authoritarian drift" and declared a strike.
It has also filed appeals against its dissolution.
Lawyers had already announced a two-day strike on Thursday and Friday in protest against the unions' dissolution, accusing the junta of threatening the independence of the justice system.
In April, the junta dissolved three other unions, one for customs officials and two others for workers in the water and forestry sector.
Those unions' workers are among the officers drafted to help fight an insurgency in the Sahel nation by jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, who have regularly carried out attacks for more than a decade.
Sudan army chief rules out any compromise with RSF paramilitaries
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Aug 14, 2025 -
Speaking on the centenary of the Sudanese armed forces, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan renewed his commitment to the "battle for dignity, to defeat the rebellion, and to make neither compromise nor reconciliation, whatever the cost".
The remarks come just days after a confidential meeting in Switzerland between Burhan and US Africa envoy Massad Boulos.
According to two Sudanese government sources, the pair discussed a new US peace plan. So far, mediation efforts led by Washington and Riyadh have failed to secure a ceasefire.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, led by General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, have attempted to establish a parallel administration in western Sudan, on territory under their control.
The United Nations Security Council strongly condemned the move on Wednesday, calling it "a direct threat to Sudan's unity and territorial integrity".
Sudan's war, now in its third year, has killed tens of thousands, displaced 13 million and plunged the nation into the world's worst hunger and displacement crisis.
The European Union on Thursday called on all parties in the civil war in Sudan to "urgently" allow the entry of international aid, as the country weathers its worst outbreak of cholera in years.
"Civilians must be protected, and humanitarian access must be granted," the EU said in a joint statement also signed by countries including Britain, Canada and Japan.
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