As rioting continues to spread across the Middle East and northern Africa, protesters
today overran the U.S and German embassies in Sudan.
Sudanese demonstrators broke into the U.S. and German embassy compounds in Khartoum and raised Islamic flags on Friday in state-backed protests against a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad, witnesses said. Police armed with tear gas and batons had clashed with protesters for almost an hour but retreated from the front of the embassy after a police car struck a demonstrator and left him on the ground in a pool of blood. A Reuters witness saw another person lying motionless on the ground nearby but it could not be confirmed whether either man was dead. Sudanese authorities had no immediate comment. Witnesses said guards inside the U.S. embassy, a vast compound comprising several buildings and tiers of fences, fired warning shots after several protesters clambered over the outer security wall and hoisted a black Islamic flag above a balcony.
Germany's foreign minister reports that while their embassy was set ablaze, all of its staffers appear to be safe.
Labels: Africa, Germany, Islam, religion
As rioting continues to spread across the Middle East and northern Africa, protesters today overran the U.S and German embassies in Sudan. 
