SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Sudan PM Hamdok survives assassination attempt in Khartoum

9/3/2020: Multiple sources – Sudan PM Hamdok survives assassination attempt in Khartoum

• AP, by Samy Magdy

• Reuters, by Khalid Abdelaziz

• BBC

• Guardian, by Jason Burke

• AFP

• Independent, by Rory Sullivan

• Telegraph, by Adrian Blomfield

 Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok survived an assassination attempt after a motorcade carrying the armoured vehicle he was in was struck by an explosion and sustained gunfire as it approached Cooper Bridge in the capital Khartoum shortly after 9am.

 In its claim of responsibility, the Sudanese Islamic Youth Movement, which sometimes refers to itself as the “Sudanese Taliban”, called Hamdok “an American agent”.

 Hamdok tweeted that the attempt “will not stand in the way of our transition…it is an additional push to the wheel of change.”

 Khalid Omar, a prominent activist and secretary general of the Sudanese Congress party, said the attempt on Hamdok’s life was a new chapter in the conspiracy against the Sudanese revolution.

 The statement by the Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change called on people “to take to the streets to show our unity and cohesion … and protect the transitional authority”.