Sudan PM Abdalla Hamdok resigns amid political impasse
Hamdok resigns lower than two months after he signed a political settlement with the navy following the October 25 coup.
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned amid political impasse following a navy coup that derailed the nation’s fragile transition to democracy.
In a televised speech late on Sunday, Hamdok, who signed a political settlement with the navy in November, stated a roundtable dialogue is required to succeed in a brand new deal.
Hamdok, a former United Nations official seen because the civilian face of Sudan’s transitional authorities, was reinstated in November amid worldwide stress in a deal that referred to as for an impartial technocratic cupboard below navy oversight led by him.
That deal, nevertheless, was rejected by the pro-democracy motion, which insists that energy be handed over to a totally civilian authorities tasked with main the transition.
Hamdok’s resignation got here after Sudanese safety forces violently dispersed the pro-democracy protesters in opposition to the October 25 navy coup, killing at least two people, a medical group stated.

Hundreds had taken to the streets in Khartoum and different cities throughout the nation to denounce the navy takeover, and a subsequent deal that reinstated the prime minister however sidelined the pro-democracy motion.
The Central Committee of Sudanese Medical doctors (CCSD), which is a part of the pro-democracy motion, on Sunday stated one of many useless was hit “violently” in his head whereas collaborating in a protest march in Khartoum.
The second was shot in his chest in Khartoum’s twin metropolis of Omdurman, the group stated, including that dozens of protesters have been injured.
Sunday’s fatalities introduced the loss of life toll amongst protesters because the coup to no less than 56, in keeping with the medical group.
The October navy takeover upended a fragile deliberate transition to democratic rule following a well-liked rebellion that compelled the navy’s overthrow of longtime chief Omar al-Bashir and his authorities in April 2019.
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