Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok was brought home on Tuesday evening and is under “enhanced surveillance” following the coup led by army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane.
Sudanese who came out en masse on Monday morning to resume post-dictatorial transition, which was brutally interrupted, have been urging the international community to help. An ambassador told AFP.
At the same time, he recalled the office of Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdock returning home with his wife, saying “many ministers and political leaders are still being held in unknown locations”, while witnesses provided security for the AFP. Troops fired tear gas at the protesters.
General Burhan tried to reassure Tuesday – the head of government – that he was dissolved on Monday – that he was at his own home, but faced incessant calls from several capitals that he seemed to give in the evening.
– “No military force!” –
The protesters did not budge and demanded that all civilian interim officers be reinstated. So they have Sudanese flags and “No military power!” Thousands continue to block Khartoum’s key axes under the slogan.
According to protesters, security forces arrested several leaders of political parties, attacked students on the campus of Khartoum University and fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the bustling district of Pauri, east of the capital.
Two years after the uprising against dictator Omar al-Bashir ended in more than 250 deaths, the worst situation is on everyone’s minds, with the international community warning that “the use of force will lead to a bloodbath.” The crisis team said, “This will lead to a long face-to-face meeting, which will close the door to resolving the crisis.”
Already on Monday, four protesters were killed in a shooting that left more than 80 wounded on the first day of a coup d’tat condemned in the West, according to a pro-democracy doctors ‘association, which has lost’ East Africa’s important American to this poor country. Aid and it could lead to the loss of European financial support.
After the declaration of “non-cooperation”, protesters want to “save” the revolution that toppled the Bashir regime in 2019, which fell under the pressure of the streets and the military.
“We will not leave the streets until the civilian government is re-established,” Hocham al-Amin, 32, an engineer, told AFP.
– Help in danger –
At a news conference in Khartoum on Tuesday, General Burhan, Sudan ‘s new strongman, defended his coup and military, saying “some attack the military” is an “essential component of change.”
In the aftermath of the explosion, flights to and from Khartoum Airport were suspended until Saturday.
While the fall of the Bashir regime and the signing of agreements with the rebels led to the belief in a solution after decades of crisis, Sudan is now mired in an unknown two-year-old transition.
Following the coup, the United States announced on Monday that it would suspend $ 700 million in aid to Khartoum. On Tuesday, the European Union threatened to cut off financial aid if the military did not immediately withdraw power.
UN President Antonio Guterres, for his part, denounced the “military leaders (who) consider themselves incapable of total punishment and can do whatever they want because nothing will happen to them.”
– “People’s Embassies” –
On Tuesday, Sudanese ambassadors in Paris, Brussels and Geneva (Switzerland) condemned the coup and declared their embassies “people and their revolution.”
For demonstrators and experts, the possibility of a return to unchallenged rule by the military is more realistic than ever.
In a country where Russians, Turks, Americans and even Saudis are competing for influence, especially in the Red Sea ports, competing for strategy, Moscow has only seen the “logical conclusion of a failed policy.” Their navies.
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