The streets in Sudan were excluded today, the shops closed, while telecommunications have been cut off and people do queues to buy bread, one day after coup and the riots that followed in which at least seven people were killed.
Life has come to a standstill in the capital Khartoum and Omdurman on the opposite bank of the Nile, with roads blocked by soldiers or by roadblocks set up by protesters.
Calls for participation in a general strike are heard from the loudspeakers of the mosques.
Doctors and civil servants in Sudan have called for a general strike to protest coup. Doctors, according to the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, will stop working in hospitals and will only take on emergencies, according to the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors. They also announced that they would stop working completely in military hospitals.
Overnight workers at ministries, government departments and the central bank also said they were participating in the general strike.
However the night passed with relative calm after Monday’s riots, when protesters took to the streets after soldiers arrested Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok and other politicians attending the National Sovereignty Council.
General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the leader of the coup, announced today the dissolution of the National Sovereignty Council, which he chaired and was set up to lead Sudan to democracy after the 2019 uprising.
Alongside imposed a state of emergency, stressing that the armed forces need to guarantee security, while pledging to conduct elections in July 2023, at which point power will be handed over to an elected government. Burhan said today that the boards of the trade unions were being disbanded, as reported by Arab television networks.
The Sudanese Ministry of Information, which remains loyal to Hamdock, posted on its Facebook page that under the country’s transitional constitution only the prime minister has the right to declare a state of emergency and stressed that the army’s actions are a crime. Hamdock is an economist and former high-ranking UN official. He was arrested by the army yesterday and is now being held in an unknown location, after refusing to issue a statement in favor of the seizure of power by the military. The army arrested other politicians and members of the National Sovereignty Council.
Coup d’etat in Sudan: UN Security Council convened
Today, Tuesday (26/10) is expected to convene an extraordinary session of the United Nations Security Council in camera to discuss the military coup in Sudan.
The meeting is being held at the request of six Western countries – the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, the United States, Estonia and France – sources told the French Agency.
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