Year: 2021

The military coup led by Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan that seized power in Sudan on October 25, and dissolved the civilian-led transitional government of Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok, that was established following the April 2019 ouster of the Omar Al Bashir regime, ended a military-civilian power-sharing partnership that was meant to transition Sudan to democracy, …

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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) published a flash update on the current humanitarian situation in Sudan yesterday, with the country in political turmoil since the coup on October 25.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet described the military takeover of power in Sudan as “deeply disturbing” in her address to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today. She said that the coup “betrays the courageous and inspiring revolution of 2019″. Sudan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Maryam El Sadig El Mahdi …

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Dozens of people, including lawyers, politicians, government officials and professionals have been arbitrarily detained, and some allegedly tortured, and an ongoing campaign against revolutionaries across Sudan by army and militia forces since the military coup seized power on October 25.

The campaign of civil disobedience proclaimed by the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) after a military coup led by Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, former chairman of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council, seized power on October 25, is being sustained by resistance committees, professional organisations, and trade unions across the country, causing many essential sector and institutions …

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