Resumption of work at Khartoum Airport..and "3 prominent figures" in the grip of the army

The Director of Sudanese Civil Aviation, Ibrahim Adlan, confirmed the resumption of work at Khartoum Airport, on Wednesday, after a decision to suspend all flights until the end of this month, due to the unrest in Sudan after the military took control of the government.

Adlan told AFP that the airport "will resume work today, Wednesday, at 16:00 local time."

The decision to resume work at the airport comes while protests continue in the streets of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, against the decisions of the army commander, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, which ousted the civilian partners from power, during the transitional phase the country is going through.

The Sudanese security forces had arrested 3 prominent political figures calling for democracy, at a time when "international pressure is mounting on the Sudanese army to reverse the coup," according to the Associated Press.

The activists arrested are Ismail al-Taj, a leader of the Sudanese Professionals Association, the group that was at the forefront of the protests that ousted al-Bashir, Seddik al-Sadiq al-Mahdi, a leader in the Umma Party, Sudan's largest political party and brother of Foreign Minister Maryam al-Mahdi, and Khaled al-Silik, a former medical advisor to the president. Ministers, according to what The Associated Press quoted Marwa Kamel's wife as saying, and activists Nazem Serraj and Nazik Awad.

The arrests came a few hours after the army allowed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his wife to return to his home.

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