Military arrest Sudan’s prime minister and members of his Cabinet

On Monday, a group of soldiers arrested the Prime Minister of the Transitional Government of Sudan, Abdullah Hamdok, and four of his ministers in their respective homes.

Among those arrested are the person in charge of the Cabinet Affairs portfolio, Khaled Omer Yusif; the Minister of Industry, Ibrahim Al Sheikh; the Information Officer, Hamza Balloul; in addition to other political figures, such as the media adviser to the prime minister, Faisal Mohamed Saleh, and members of the Sovereign Council, Sky News Arabia collects.

The Army is positioned at the entrance and exit of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in response to a succession of news about the arrests of the ministers, reports the daily ‘Sudan Ajbar’.

For its part, the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), has launched a publication on its Facebook page where it has called on “resistance committees” in the neighborhoods to confront the military and “take to the streets and occupy them completely ”in the face of the“ military coup ”.

In addition, they have warned that “the coup plotters are preparing to cut Internet service” and telephony after having arrested “most of the members of the Cabinet and the Sovereign Council.”

“We ask the resistance committees and the professional, union, political, demands and popular revolutionary forces to prepare and activate the tools of communication, coordination and proven ground networks,” they have expressed.

Subsequently, citizens in Khartoum have taken to the streets and burned tires, thus setting up barricades in the streets of the north of the capital as a show of protest against the arrests, says Alarabiya.

In mid-September, Sudan was the scene of an attempted coup, according to the transition authorities, led by a group of officers from the Armed Forces from the remnants of the old regime.

The transitional authorities were established after an agreement between the military junta established after the coup that overthrew Omar Hasan al Bashir in April 2019, and various civil organizations and opposition political formations.

This government has initiated a battery of social and economic reforms – some of which have caused unrest among the population, such as the withdrawal of subsidies – and has reached a peace agreement with important rebel groups in Darfur and other areas of the country. .