This Sunday several hundred people took to the streets to once again chant their opposition to the coup d’etat by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, who has ruled Sudan since October. The United Nations and the African Union plead for a political dialogue.
In Sudan, after a week without a rally because of the Muslim holiday of Eid, this Sunday several hundred people demonstrated against the coup d’etat of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, who has ruled the country since the month of october. In the capital, the police tried to disperse the demonstrators who approached the Palace.
The 2021 coup d’état in Sudan is a military operation carried out by the Sudanese army on October 25, 2021 against the transitional government. A few senior government officials were arrested, including civilian Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok.
Sudan’s transition to democracy was launched after 30 years in 2019, when military and civilians agreed to share power and lead the country to its first democratic elections.
The United Nations and the African Union plead for a political dialogue under penalty of seeing the country sink definitively « economically and in terms of security » when already, according to the UN, one out of two Sudanese will suffer from hunger by the end of 2022.