The technocrat, who had set up a new government under the pressure of the putschists, judged Sunday that the “survival” of the country was “threatened”.
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The lost democratic mask having lost its brands, its reputation and its principles to protect from the military on the civilian population, ended up falling. Placed in an untenable position of the coup de force created by the army officials in Sudan at the end of October 2021, Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok resigned, Sunday, January 2nd. It was more than a month that he was trying to do good in playing his own puppet, after being first held in supervised residence. Sunday evening, on television, he confessed his impotence, to justify his resignation, but also said his pessimism, judging that the “survival” of Sudan is “threatened”.
The Sudanese transition, elaborated after the overthrow of the Islamic-military dictatorship of Omar Al-Bachir, in April 2019, had to drive civil and military to govern and reform the country to bring it to general elections . In this context, Abdallah Hamdok, Prime Minister, talented the function of competent technocrat who had a career in the international institutions, and to withdraw at the time of the vote to return to his dear studies. He did not have the opportunity.
Chaos Orchestré
On October 25, a coup led by General Abdel Fattah Al-Bourhane, with the consent of his allies outside the country – notably Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Israel – but Also the support of various forces in Sudanese uniform and that of ex-rebels of Darfur, had reversed the transition. Many civilian politicians were arrested, including Abdallah Hamdok.
Held for a month at home, deprived of essential medical care, subject to incessant intimidation, Abdallah Hamdok had ended up at the pressures of the putsch leaders and pretended to believe in the fiction of a return to normal Assumed “put an end to the blood bath” in Sudan, according to his own words. This blood paid was that of protesters claiming tenacity, under the bullets, the return of democracy in the Sudanese streets, and who believed to their prime minister, of which they arrogated the portrait, until his “betrayal” of November 21.
But the expression also returned to a red cloth, wider, agitated by the coup managers. The latter, to justify their act, had recourse to a nebulous reasoning, to play on the fear of a confrontation between … their different components, both within the security services, the army, intelligence services, Fast support forces of General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, Alias ”Hemetti”, or a handful of ex-rebellious factions of Darfur. In reality, part of the chaos that preceded the coup was orchestrated by these same armed components, in order to justify the passage to the act of October 25th.
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