Sudan: Prime Minister Hamdok announces his resignation

(ANSA) - KHARTOUM, 02 JAN - The Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, who leads the civilian front of the transition in the country, announced his resignation on state television this evening, two months after a coup d'etat followed by a repression that provoked 56 dead.

   "I have done my best to try to prevent the country from precipitating into disaster," Hamdok said in his speech to the nation broadcast on TV, "in light of the fragmentation of political forces and the conflicts between the (civil and military) components of the transition ... despite everything that has been done to reach a consensus ... has not happened. "

Sudan, he added, "is at a dangerous turning point, which puts its very survival at risk".

(HANDLE).