SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Bloomberg - Sudan Coup Leaders Tighten Grip With Jobs for Loyalists, Arrests
Bloomberg report that Sudan’s military tightened its grip on state institutions and arrested hundreds of opponents, dampening hopes that Sudan’s democratic transition can be put back on track after the military coup.
Military chief Abdulfattah al-Burhan has removed: the central bank’s deputy governor, the attorney general, the leaders of [the Tamkeen] committee probing illicit financial gains made during the Omar al-Bashir regime, and the boards of state-owned companies and agricultural programmes.
“It’s a complete military coup,” said Amir Suliman, legal programme director of the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, citing the “dismissal of the Sovereign Council.. cabinet, [and] now civil servants.”
Human-rights lawyer Ali Ajab said he was aware of hundreds of arrests and efforts to appoint people with close links to al-Bashir’s regime in senior posts.
“This is a counter-revolution,” said Sara Abdelgalil, of Governance Programming Overseas, an organisation promoting Sudan’s democratic transition.