After having stopped almost all civilian leaders, the army opened fire on the protesters, making at least seven deaths and more than 140 wounded.
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These boots noises, the Sudanese have already heard them many times. Monday October 25th In the morning, when they woke up after the call to prayer, telecommunications had been cut off. The day began in a disturbing silence, reminiscent of the darkest hours of a country that has already experienced three military dictatorships.
The few notifications received at dawn on smartphones before the blackout did not preserve anything good. The Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, had been arrested at his home, as well as most civilian representatives in the transitional authorities. Refusing to give their white-seteg to the putschists, they were carried out in an unknown place, by the soldiers with whom they shared power.
Without possibility of calling their loved ones or organizing on social networks, the inhabitants of Khartoum have led to their door or window, then they went down to the corner of the street. In small groups, they converged towards the center of the capital. Gradually, the sky has been covered with black smoke. In a few hours, they were thousands to scroll, spontaneously, slaloming between brick barricades and burned tires erected to slow down the deployment of security forces.
After blocked the bridges over the blue Nile and the white Nile, the latter had been deployed at the main intersections, near the airport – closed international flights – and around the army headquarters, Al -Qiyadah, a high place of the popular uprising that led to the fall of the Dictator Omar Al-Bachir, April 11, 2019. One month after a first attempt by Putsch shot on September 21, which looked like a test ball of the generals for Evaluate the reaction of the street and the international community, the Sudanese transition was about to derail. It’s now done.
At mid-day, General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al-Bourhane appeared on national television, assault a little earlier by his soldiers. Beret screwed on the head, the President of the Council of Sovereignty justified the use of force to “rectify the course of the transition”. He declared the state of emergency throughout the territory, the dissolution of the transition bodies and the limogear of the governors of the region. After getting rid of almost all civilians in power, the new master of the country claimed that the army would guarantee the establishment of a new government composed of “competent persons” representing all political parties, until ‘in holding elections in July 2023.
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