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Sudan, military coup: several ministers arrested

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Unidentified soldiers besieged the home of Sudan Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, declaring him under house arrest. This was reported by Al Hadath TV, quoted by al Jazeera. The ministers of industry and information and an advisor to the premier have also been arrested. “Access to telecommunications has been limited”, Al Jazeera from Khartoum tells us, “so it is very difficult to obtain information on what is happening”. According to reports, “civilian members of the transitional sovereign council and a number of transitional government ministers have been arrested by joint military forces.”

This was confirmed by the Ministry of Information in a note on Facebook specifying that the arrested were taken to an unspecified place. However, in its statement, the ministry did not specify whether Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok was among the arrested leaders, after the media reported that he had been placed under house arrest. The news of these hours immediately led to protests by the civilian population, frightened by the hypothesis of a government of a military junta.

Internet has been cut off across the country and main roads and bridges to the capital, Khartoum, have been closed, the information ministry said. Dozens of protesters set car tires on fire during rallies held on the streets of the capital to protest the arrests, an AFP correspondent noted. State television began broadcasting patriotic songs. The Sudanese Professionals Association, a group of unions key in leading the protests against the regime of autocrat-president Omar al Bashir in 2019, denounced a “military coup” and urged the protesters to “resist strenuously”. Sudan is undergoing a transition marked by political divisions and power struggles following the ouster of Bashir in April 2019. Since August 2019, the country has been led by a civilian-military administration charged with overseeing the transition to a full government. formed by civilians.

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But the main civil bloc – the Forces for Freedom and Change (FCC) – the one that spearheaded the anti-Bashir protests in 2019, has split into two factions. Last week tens of thousands of Sudanese marched in several cities to support the full transfer of power to civilians and to counter a rival sit-in set up for days in front of the presidential palace in Khartoum calling for a return to the “military government”. Premier Abdalla Hamdok previously described the divisions in the transitional government as the “worst and most dangerous crisis” facing the transition.

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