The office of Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok said - yesterday evening, Tuesday - that he and his wife returned to their home in Khartoum under heavy guard, while night demonstrations took place in the Sudanese capital, rejecting the actions of the army chief, Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, to dissolve the Councils of Ministers and Sovereignty. 12 countries expressed their rejection of what they considered a military coup in their country.

Hamdok's office said - in a statement posted on his Facebook page - that the Prime Minister and his wife were returned to their residence in Khartoum under heavy guard, and the office added that a number of ministers and political leaders are still under arrest in unknown locations.

The Sudanese army had arrested at dawn on Monday the prime minister, his wife, ministers and party leaders, after the army commander announced the dissolution of the Sovereignty Councils and the transitional ministers, and his pledge to form an independent government of competencies.

Al-Burhan also declared a state of emergency, dismissing governors, and suspending some provisions of the constitutional document for managing the transitional phase that followed the overthrow of the regime of ousted President Omar al-Bashir.

denial of proof

Before returning Hamdok to his home, the army chief denied - yesterday, Tuesday, in a press conference - that the prime minister is under arrest, adding that he "is with me in my house to preserve his safety, is leading his life normally and will return to his home."


General Al-Burhan tried - in a televised speech the day before yesterday - to justify his decisions, which were described internally and externally as a military coup, by saying that "incitement to chaos by political forces pushed us to do what preserves Sudan," considering that what the country is going through has become a real danger.

In his press conference held yesterday afternoon, Al-Burhan confirmed his intention to cancel the state of emergency as soon as the building of the institutions of the transitional period was completed, and said that the transitional period had gone through political tensions that brought the country into a phase of political fragmentation.

In response to Al-Burhan’s statements, Hamdok’s office said - in a statement posted on Facebook - that the claims of those he described as the head of the coup that what he is doing is protecting the revolution will not deceive the Sudanese people, and added that the alliance that is being formed aims to finish off Sudan and the revolution, and is led from behind by the National Congress (The party of ousted President Omar al-Bashir).

The statement described Al-Burhan’s actions as merely implementing internal and external dictates, and had nothing to do with the army or the interest of the country, noting that Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok is the executive leadership recognized by the Sudanese people and the world, and the statement stressed that there is no alternative to the streets, strikes and disobedience until gains are restored. revolution.

Protests and arrests

In a related context, night protests erupted in some areas of the Sudanese capital, in rejection of the measures announced by the Commander-in-Chief of the Army.

The protesters chanted slogans calling for the civil authority and rejecting the military rule. They also chanted the peacefulness of their movement and the continuation of the escalation until their demands are achieved.

And earlier on Tuesday, thousands of Sudanese continued their protest against the military's control of power, and their expulsion of their civilian partners from power, after 4 people were killed and more than 40 wounded in Khartoum by army bullets during demonstrations against his move.


Today, Tuesday, demonstrations took place in several areas in Khartoum and in several other states, in protest against the measures announced by Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and the demonstrators burned tires in main streets in Khartoum, and closed some streets and bridges.

The Sudanese Professionals Association called for the use of what it described as the tested tools of peaceful resistance in the general political strike and open and comprehensive civil disobedience.

Activists also posted pictures on social media of what they said was the closure of shops in Khartoum in compliance with civil disobedience.

Al-Jazeera correspondent in Sudan said that a security force had arrested Fayez Al-Silik, the former advisor to the Sudanese Prime Minister. A source in the family of Al-Siddiq Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi, the assistant to the head of the Sudanese Umma Party, said that a security force had taken Al-Siddiq Al-Mahdi from his home for unknown reasons.

A source told Al Jazeera that a security force also took the leader of the Sudanese Professionals Association, Ismail Al-Taj, to an unknown destination, on Tuesday evening, and a member of the steering committee of the General Union of Teachers reported that joint forces from the army and rapid support arrested the head of the committee, Yassin Hassan Abdel Karim, on Al-Ghaba Street, and took him to unknown location.

Sudan's ambassadors

A diplomatic source said that Sudan's ambassadors in 12 countries, including: the United States, the Emirates, China and France, rejected in the statement the military coup that took place on Monday.

The statement was also signed by the Sudanese ambassadors to: Belgium, the European Union, Geneva, United Nations agencies, South Africa, Qatar, Kuwait, Turkey, Sweden and Canada.

The statement stated that the ambassadors are siding with the popular resistance to the coup.

A diplomatic source said that Sudan's ambassadors in 12 countries - including the United States, the Emirates, China and France - rejected the statement of the military coup that took place on Monday.

Hours after Al-Burhan's statement, the Sudanese authorities decided to suspend all flights to and from Khartoum Airport.

According to the Director of Civil Aviation Ibrahim Adlan, all incoming and outgoing flights from Khartoum Airport have been suspended until October 30, due to the conditions the country is going through.

Adlan told Reuters that the decision to suspend flights also includes all Sudan's airports, but indicated that Sudanese airspace will remain open to transit flights.

Khartoum Airport is located in the center of the capital, and is separated by an iron fence from the main streets of Khartoum, where demonstrators and soldiers block most roads with stones and burning tires.

External responses

In international reactions, US State Department spokesman Ned Price called for the release of all political prisoners in Sudan, and the non-use of violence against civilians.

And the US National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, had said that his country is in close contact with the leaders of the region, including the Gulf states, in order to coordinate and deliver a clear message to the Sudanese army of the need to return to the democratic path.

Sudan's ambassador to Washington, Noureddine Sati, said - in a previous Al-Jazeera bulletin - that Washington's suspension of its aid to Sudan in response to the military coup is a first step, and pressure must be continued on the Burhan regime, he said.

Al-Jazeera correspondent in New York, Fadi Mansour, said that the closed session of the UN Security Council on Sudan ended without consensus on a joint statement, adding that diplomatic sources in the council said that negotiations are continuing on issuing a joint statement on developments in Sudan.

Russia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyansky, said that his country believes that what happened in Sudan last Monday may be a transfer of power and not a military coup.

In a striking statement, Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky said that his country believes that what happened in Sudan last Monday may be a transfer of power and not a military coup.

The Russian diplomat explained, "Why do we say what happened in Sudan is a military coup? Why is it not a transfer of power? We have seen that before (..) in Sudan two years ago, when the move was made to oust former President Omar al-Bashir."

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, said that the Sudanese Prime Minister and officials who were illegally detained should be released immediately, and added - in a press conference - that he reiterated his strong condemnation of the military seizure of power in Sudan.

On Tuesday, the European Union condemned the coup in Sudan, and threatened to suspend its financial aid to the country if the military did not return power to the civilian government immediately.

Germany's mission to the United Nations said it had suspended development cooperation with Sudan until further notice, adding, "We will monitor the situation after the coup."