Khartoum: Sudan has rejected a United States (US) request to send marines to bolster security at the US embassy outside Khartoum, the Sudanese media reported on Saturday.
At least two people were killed and several others injured after almost 5,000 people protested against a film that insults the prophet Muhammad, storming the German embassy before breaking into the US mission in Khartoum on Friday.
“Sudan is able to protect the diplomatic missions in Khartoum and the state is committed to protecting its guests in the diplomatic corps,” Sudanese foreign minister Ali Ahmed Karti told media.
A US official told Reuters on Friday that Washington would send marines to Sudan to improve security at the embassy, which is located outside Khartoum for security reasons.
Sudan beefed up security at some missions on Saturday. A riot police truck was parked in front of the deserted German embassy, which protesters had set on fire on Friday. An Islamic flag raised by the crowd was still flying. Three officers manned the main gate.
More than 20 police officers were sitting in front of the the US embassy.
Sudan has also criticised Germany for allowing a protest last month by rightwing activists carrying caricatures of Muhammad, and for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s award in 2010 to a Danish cartoonist who had depicted the prophet, triggering unrest across the Islamic world.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has been under pressure from Islamists who feel the government has given up the religious values of his 1989 Islamist coup. The Sudanese government had called for protests against the film, but peaceful ones.
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