KHARTOUM
- Only a few people saw the features of the coup that the Sudanese government announced that it had thwarted at dawn today, Tuesday.
Armed soldiers then disembarked and prevented cars from crossing the bridge into Khartoum, telling the drivers to change their destination;
After that, it was revealed that a military coup had been foiled. The government said that elements of the armed forces and civilians affiliated with the former regime were behind it.
Sudanese Information Minister Hamza Balloul Al-Amir announced that the situation in the country is under control after the military and civilian leaders of the coup attempt were arrested.
The following is a presentation of the events that took place in Khartoum from this morning until the announcement of the failure of the coup, according to information obtained by Al Jazeera Net:
At 12:00 midnight: The
first information about the coup was available through an operations room that was meeting to follow up on events in eastern Sudan, as one of the leaders of the influential clans has closed the eastern region with its three states and ports on the Red Sea since last Friday.
According to sources who spoke to Al Jazeera Net, the operations room entered a state of alert 72 hours ago, after the Committee for Dismantling and Removing the Empowerment of the June 30, 1989 regime monitored contacts with some elements of the former regime.
At 4:00 in the morning:
The initial information of the coup reached the Minister of Culture and Information Hamza Balloul, which states that there was a "suspicious move", and accordingly the minister made contact with a number of officials.
5:10 am:
Contacts took place between members of the Sovereignty Council and the President of the Council to exchange information, the first of which was the arrest of junior officers active in the coup attempt.
At 6:00 am:
Attempts to close the bridges began, a procedure long experienced by the residents of Khartoum in the previous military coups they experienced, as several bridges link the main cities of the capital "Khartoum, Khartoum North, and Omdurman", separating them from some of the Blue Nile and White Nile rivers. and the main Nile River.
Attempts to close the bridges only appeared at the ancient White Nile bridge between Khartoum and Omdurman, where eyewitnesses noticed a tank moving and soldiers on foot preventing cars from crossing towards Khartoum.
At 6:00 am:
At the same time, an officer with the rank of colonel and a number of soldiers arrived at the state TV headquarters in Omdurman, and they entered the broadcast engineer, asking him to cut the programming and broadcast the army's military music.
The coups in Sudan are always preceded by the control of the national radio and television headquarters to cut off programming and broadcast “military exercises”;
In preparation for the broadcast of what is known as "Statement No. 1" of the military coup.
At 6:30 am:
The Minister of Cabinet Affairs, the Minister of Information and a number of cabinet workers arrived at the government headquarters (the Presidency of the Council of Ministers) overlooking the Nile and University Streets in Khartoum. Shortly afterwards, Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok and the ministers flocked to the headquarters.
6:40 a.m.: The
first official announcement of the existence of a coup by a member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Muhammad al-Faki Suleiman, who resorted to his Facebook account and wrote, "Rise to defend your country and protect the transition."
About half an hour later, Al-Faki returned to his account again to reassure the Sudanese by saying, "Things are under control and the revolution is victorious."
7:15 a.m.:
The National TV announced in a breaking news tape a coup attempt, and asked the masses to confront it. Shortly afterwards, on the same news tape, the television announced that the coup attempt had been foiled.
The state television and radio had cut off their regular programs and broadcast interludes of patriotic songs.
At 8:30 am:
She was negotiating with the last pocket of the putschists in the Armored Corps located in the Shagara suburb (about 10 kilometers south of central Khartoum).
9:00 am:
The names of the officers involved in the coup attempt began to leak out, led by Major General Abdel-Baqi Bakrawi, who was earlier the second commander of armored vehicles.
9:00 a.m.:
Also at nine o’clock, a contact took place between the parties of the Freedom and Change Forces with some of the resistance committees, and they were asked not to move and to express themselves in the media so that the security services would pursue the coup elements to miss the opportunity for any intruders, according to the sources.
A very weak play to test the minds of the defeated people, and this play confirmed that there is a #military_coup coming, and the people must confront it.
— YASIN AHMED (@yasin123ah) September 21, 2021
11:25 a.m.:
In the first appearance of a media official on the official media, the Minister of Culture and Information appeared on the official Sudan TV to confirm that the coup attempt had been completely thwarted, which he said that officers in the armed forces and civilians affiliated with the former regime were involved in it.
At 1:23 pm:
Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok appears for the first time after the coup attempt in a speech he addressed to the Sudanese after an emergency meeting of the Council of Ministers broadcast on television and radio.
Hamdok said that the failed coup attempt that took place at dawn today aimed at the revolution and all the achievements of our great people, to undermine the civil democratic transition, and to close the door to the movement of history, but as usual, the determination of our people was stronger, and apostasy is impossible.
The Prime Minister confirmed that coordination will be made between the government and the Empowerment Removal Committee to prevent undermining the transitional period.