SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Sudan military takes power in coup, arrests prime minister

25/10/2021: Multiple sources – Sudan military takes power in coup, arrests prime minister

• AP, by Samy Magdy

• Reuters

• Guardian, by Peter Beaumont

• AFP

• CNN, by Yasir Abdallah, Kareem El Damanhoury, Mostafa Salem, Jennifer Deaton and Kara Fox

• BBC

• Radio Dabanga

• Sudan Tribune

• New York Times, by Declan Walsh, Abdi Latif Dahir and Simon Marks

Sudan’s military has seized power in a coup, arrested leading civilian politicians including the prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, and declared a state of emergency as thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Khartoum in opposition.

Lt. Gen Abdelfattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese army, justified the seizure of power and the dissolution of Sudan’s government by saying infighting between the military and civilian parties threatened the country’s stability. The military was meant to have passed leadership of the joint sovereign council to a civilian figure in the coming months.

Al-Burhan said an "independent and fair representative government of competencies” comprising of unaffiliated technocrats would assume power until one is elected in July 2023. Several articles of the constitution have been suspended and state governors removed, he said.