This is only the end of a comedy that no one was fooled by.
By resigning Sunday evening, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok simply dispelled the vague democratic mists that were shrouding the regime to show it as it is: a military dictatorship.
The coup d'état of October 25, fomented by the army chief and interim president, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, had swept away the civil-military team that had ruled the state since the fall of Omar el- Bashir in 2019. Abdallah Hamdok, a discreet and courteous senior official, already prime minister, had been arrested and placed under house arrest.
“For his safety,”
the junta had dared to advance.
The officers justified this seizure of power by the need to preserve the unity of the country, threatened according to them by outbursts of anger, in particular the strike paralyzing Port-Sudan, which they largely supported behind the scenes.
"Military-Islamist policy"
A month later, the same Hamdok was reinstalled as the prime minister.
But in the meantime ...
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