SUNA, Sudan's official news agency, reported citing Brigadier General Taher Abu Haja, media advisor to the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, that the coup attempt had been foiled and the situation was completely under control.

Sudanese Minister of Culture and Information and the official spokesman for the government, Hamza Balloul Al-Amir, in a television address said that a coup attempt by a group of armed forces and civilians linked to the former regime had been thwarted and those behind it "brought under control".

"We confirm in the transitional government and the regular agencies that we are working in complete coordination, and we assure the Sudanese people that the situation is under complete control, as the leaders of the military and civilian coup attempt were arrested and are being investigated," Hamza Balloul said.

"After the last pockets of the coup were liquidated in the Shagara camp, and the competent authorities continue to pursue the remnants of the defunct regime involved in the failed coup attempt," the government spokesperson said.

"We call on all the forces of the revolution, including resistance committees, political and civil forces, peace parties, professional and union bodies, and all sectors of the Sudanese people, to be vigilant and pay attention to the repeated attempts that seek to abort the glorious December revolution," Sudan's Information minister added in the television address.

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said that the failed coup attempt this morning was targeting the revolution and all the achievements of the Sudanese people.

After longtime President Omar al-Bashir was ousted two years ago, Sudan is ruled by a transitional government composed of both civilian and military representatives under an August 2019 power-sharing agreement.