Coup d'état in Sudan, the premier arrested

   Unidentified soldiers besieged the home of Sudan Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, declaring him under house arrest.

Al Hadath TV reports, quoted by al Jazeera.

    The ministers of industry and information and an advisor to the premier have also been arrested.

    "Access to telecommunications has been limited" - says al Jazeera from Khartoum - "so it is very difficult to obtain information on what is happening". 

   According to other sources, soldiers loyal to General Burhan would have taken control, in a very delicate moment in the transition of the country divided into two factions since the ouster of former president Omar al-Bashir. Only yesterday the pro-democracy groups had warned of a possible coup after the security forces had dispersed with tear gas a demonstration of pro-militaries calling for the dissolution of the transitional government. The demonstrators had briefly blocked the main roads and bridges of Khartoum, isolating the central area from the northern districts. 

"Civilian members of the transitional sovereign council and a number of transitional government ministers were arrested by joint military forces" in Sudan.

This was confirmed by the Ministry of Information in a note on Facebook specifying that the arrested were taken to an unspecified place.

However, in its statement, the ministry did not specify whether Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok was among the arrested leaders, after the media reported that he had been placed under house arrest.