Jimu news reporter Song Qingying
According to the BBC, in the early morning of October 25, local time, a military coup d'état occurred in Sudan, and Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamduk was arrested and placed under house arrest.
Prime Minister of Sudan Abdullah Hamduk, BBC
An unidentified army surrounded Prime Minister Hamdok's home, and soldiers stormed the prime minister's home and arrested him.
A post on the Facebook page of Sudan's Ministry of Information said Hamdok, who is under house arrest, asked the Sudanese people to continue peaceful protests and "defend the revolution." The joint forces detaining the prime minister have been pressuring him to make a statement of support for the coup, the post said. After refusing to support the coup, the army has now moved the prime minister to an unknown location.
In addition, the army has arrested four cabinet ministers and a civilian member of the transitional government, according to sources. Al Jazeera said that the daughter of the country's minister of industry, Ibrahim Sheikh, said that in the early morning of the 25th, a joint force arrested her father from her home. The wife of Khartoum Governor Ayman Nimül called you that an armed force had arrested her husband in her home.
Witnesses said troops had been deployed throughout the capital, Khartoum, and civilian movement was restricted. Meanwhile, protesters blocked parts of the capital's roads and set fires in protest against official arrests. Al Jazeera reported billowing smoke billowing from some areas of the capital, Khartoum.
The BBC said the capital, Khartoum Airport, is now closed and international flights are suspended. Internet has been cut off in parts of Sudan's capital, communications have been affected, and the military has shut down bridges and tunnels in Khartoum.
People gathered in the streets of Khartoum, BBC, for coup reports
Sudan has been unable to find a viable political system since independence in 1956, following 15 coups, five of which were successful. Most recently in 2019, Omar Bashir was removed from his post as head of state after months of popular protests.
Since the overthrow of al-Bashir's regime, the military and a loose group, the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), have reached an agreement to form a sovereign commission, and the military and the civilian transitional government have decided to govern together for a year until elections are held and a transition to civilian rule is held. But since then, Sudan has spawned a large number of opposing political groups, as well as divisions within the military.
As the Sudanese economy is in trouble, the support rating of the Interim Government of the Sudan has declined in recent months. The military and its supporters have been seeking to dissolve the transitional government. This month, opponents of Sudan's transitional government took to the streets of the capital, Khartoum, calling on the army to take control of the country. However, on the 21st, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the capital Khartoum to show solidarity with the transitional government.
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