Sudan’s prime minister resigns 6 weeks after being reinstated

The prime minister of Sudan, Abdullah Hamdok, announced his resignation today during a televised speech 42 days after reaching an agreement with the military to return to the post from which he had been expelled in the October 25 coup.

“I announce my resignation from the post of Prime Minister to give the opportunity to a son or daughter of this generous country to lead and direct it during the remainder of the transition period towards a civil and democratic state,” Hamdok said in his address.

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Hamdok’s resignation came hours after a new day of demonstrations against the coup and against his subsequent pact with the country’s military leader, Abdelfatah al Burhan, in which at least three protesters were killed, according to the opposition Doctors Committee, with which amounted to 57 those who died in protests against the coup.

During the last two weeks, rumors about the imminent resignation of Hamdok had been published on several occasions, especially after the last demonstrations, in which several protesters were killed, mainly by bullet holes, and even the rapes of several women were denounced by parts of the security forces in one of them.

Although he did not explicitly explain the reason why he made this decision, he had words of appreciation for “the young men and women of the resistance committees,” those responsible for convening the days of protest against the coup d’état and in favor of a government. civil.

“You have done well and your steadfastness was inspiring and shaped the characteristics of a new Sudan,” he said.

However, he pointed out to the military that “the people are the highest sovereign authority, and the armed forces are the forces of this people that carry out their orders.”

Hamdok was appointed Prime Minister in August 2019 to lead the transition process agreed between the military and political and civilian forces after the overthrow, in April of that year, of the dictator Omar al Bashir.

After the coup d’état of October 25, in which the military dissolved the Government and detained several of its members and other civilians who participated in the transitional organs, he was under house arrest for several weeks until he was reinstated in the post on November 21.

That day he signed an agreement with Al Burhan to form a government of technocrats without the participation of the parties and civilian forces that led the protests that led to the fall of Al Bashir and that proposed Hamdok in 2019 for the post.

Most of these forces considered the pact as a betrayal of the prime minister and continued to participate in the demonstrations against the military, in which 15 people who participated in the protests against the repression of the security forces have died since that day.

Furthermore, three these six weeks Hamdok had not yet formed a government.

During his speech, he defended that his agreement with the military was “one more attempt to bring the parties to the dialogue table and agree on a roadmap to fulfill the rest of the transition period.”

In addition, he affirmed that “the country is going through a dangerous turning point that may threaten its entire survival,” which he blamed on disagreements and conflicts between the different components of the transition.

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