Sudan: ministers arrested by “military forces”

The internet network was cut across the country, while protesters gathered in the streets of Khartoum, the capital, to protest against arrests.

Le Monde with AFP

Most ministers and civilian members of the sovereignty council who hoses the transition to Sudan were arrested on Monday, October 25, by “military forces”, announced the Ministry of Information in a statement. The text does not specify whether the Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok is part of the arrested leaders, while media reported that he had been placed in supervised residence.

The internet network was cut across the country, found journalists from the France-Presse agency, while protesters gathered in the streets of Khartoum, the capital, to protest against arrests.

Attempt of putsch

In Sudan, the situation has been stretched for several weeks between civil and military transitional authorities. Thursday, October 21, hundreds of thousands of people scrolled in several cities to demand a transfer of power to civilians, while a SIT-IN has been calling for a “military government” for six days to release the land of the Marasm.

The date is not innocuous: October 21 is the anniversary date of the popular uprising and the general strike which, in 1964, came to the end of General Ibrahim Abboud, arrived in power by force shortly after The independence of the country in 1956.

The protesters went down the street to claim their willingness to protect the achievements of the revolution initiated in December 2018, which resulted in the fall of former President Omar Al-Bachir. The soldiers who ensured his succession, in April 2019, signed a power-sharing agreement with the forces for freedom and change (FFC), a coalition of civilian parties carried by popular uprising. But since the attempt at Putsch missed on September 21, the transition seemed about to derail and the generals multiplied the frontal attacks against the “mismanagement” of civilians.

Almost immediately after the state television of the missed Putsch, General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al-Bourhane appeared triumphant in the barracks of the armored division from which part of the mutiny. He had landed in “goalkeeper” of the Sudanese Revolution, ensuring that the army was the only one able to lead the country to the planned elections beginning 2024.

Since its independence, Sudan has experienced three military dictatorships, which have been interrupted brutally a period of democratic transition.

/Media reports.