Sudan: fallen during military putsch, Prime Minister, Abdallah Hamdok, back to power

A political agreement was concluded between the Prime Minister of Transition, dismissed in October, and General Al-Bourhane, who had been running the country since the coup, according to Sudanese mediators.

Le Monde with AFP

Abdallah Hamdok, Prime Minister put away after the military coup in Sudan, must find his position under an agreement with the country’s strong man, General Abdel Fattah Al-Bourhane, announced Sunday, November 21 of the mediators.

“A political agreement has been concluded between General Bourhane, Abdallah Hamdok, the political forces and civil society organizations for a return of Hamdok to his position and the liberation of political detainees,” said one Sudanese mediators, Fadlallah Burma, an OPMMA opposition party leader. A group of Sudanese mediators broadcast a statement confirming the agreement.

This includes the restoration of Mr. Hamdok in his duties, the liberation of the detainees and the return to the political, legal and constitutional consensus that managed the transition period launched after the fall in 2019 of the regime of General Omar al- Bachir in 2019, removed by the army under the pressure of the street.

“The agreement will be officially announced later in the day, after the signing of the terms of the agreement and the political declaration accompanying him”, according to the statement.

General Bourhane Until -The inflexible

The military has long been slow to appoint the new government they promised for weeks after the gap from Mr. Hamdok, placed in supervised residence.

But in the face of the calls to the return of the civil power, General Al-Bourhane had remained until then inflexible. He had renowned the head of the highest institution of the transition, the Council of Sovereignty, and had renewed all military or proarmed members and appointed apolitical civilians. General Bourhane, however, seemed loosened the vintage of the deadly day of Wednesday, restoring the internet connection of the country, cut since its taking of power on October 25th.

By conducting a coup on October 25, General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al-Bourhane, Head of the Army, rebutted the maps of a shiny transition in Sudan. He had arrested almost all civilians in power, put a final point to the sacred union formed by civilians and military and decreed the state of emergency.

Since, protests against the army calling for the return of civil power have taken place, mainly in Khartoum, and have often been repressed. Saturday, hundreds of protesters showed in Khartoum North, a suburb of the capital, erected barricades in the streets and set fire to tires, according to a correspondent of the France-Presse agency. “No to military power!”, They were changing. Others came out in the streets in the east and southern capital, according to witnesses. Forty people have died since the coup of October 25, for most protesters.

/Media reports.