Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 26 Oct 2021, 03:46 pm Print
File photo of Sudan's toppled PM Abdalla Hamdok via Twitter/Sudanese PMO
Khartoum, Sudan (JEN): Sudan's deposed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has been escorted back to his own residence in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, two days after the country's armed forces seized power in a coup, according to military sources.
Sudan's ousted Prime Minister's office said Hamdok and his wife have been brought home while a number of government officials and political leaders are still in detention at 'unknown' locations.
After dissolving Sudan's transitional government in a coup on Monday, the country's military leader had announced a national state of emergency, detained interim Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok along with his wife Muna Abdalla, and taken them to an 'undisclosed' location.
Protests against Monday’s coup in Sudan have spread across the country. Here images from Atbara, a town where anti-government protests exploded in 2018 against Omar al-Bashir. pic.twitter.com/kRtqTNSSRj
— Simon Marks (@MarksSimon) October 26, 2021
Several senior officials of the power-sharing government were also arrested while the Sudanese government had alleged that PM Hamdok was being forced by the armed forces to sign a message in support of the coup.
#الردة_مستØيلة#لا_للانقلاب_العسكري pic.twitter.com/gBXiEN2ekm
— البعشوم (@B3shom) October 26, 2021
Coup leader and army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who was the head of the power-sharing ruling council, had earlier said that toppled PM Abdalla Hamdok was being held "for his own safety" and he would likely be released soon.
Thousands stage protest in Sudan after military seized power in a coup. Image by local sources via Twitter
The military takeover came after weeks of escalating tensions between civilian and military leaders over Sudan's course and the pace of its transition to democracy.
Defending the military's seizure of power, General al-Burhan said the army had no choice but to sideline the political leaders in a coup who were inciting against the armed forces and heading the country towards a civil war.
رصد اليات ثقيلة لضرب المدنيين من قبل قادة الانقلاب العسكري ÙÙŠ السودان #SudanCoup #الردة_مستØيلة #العصيان_المدنى_الشامل #انقلاب_السودان pic.twitter.com/k8zlTqMjgL
— Ahmed ✪ الخواض (@a7medcist) October 26, 2021
The coup leader also promised that the military will appoint a technocratic government in Sudan to lead the country to elections, set for July 2023.
Meanwhile, several people have been killed and hundreds have been injured as thousands of pro-democracy Sudanese took to the streets of the capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman against the military takeover.
A video from yesterday's protests in
— Muhammad Salah (@Muhammad_Salah1) October 26, 2021
Khartoum condemning the Coup
d'état in Sudan. 25.10.21 (the
filmmaker is uncredited for
protection) #الردة_مستØيلة #SudanCoup #sudan @CNNAfrica @wasilalitaha @BBCAfrica @France24_en pic.twitter.com/w73ZyzOJNt
Calling the coup 'utterly unacceptable betrayal', world leaders and human rights groups have condemned the coup and the detention of high-ranking officials of the transitional government, including the country's interim prime minister.
After expressing "deep concern" over the military takeover, which has hurled Sudan into its biggest political crisis in its two-year-old already fragile transition towards democracy, Washington has announced the suspension of $700 million in emergency assistance to the country.
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