{"id":1884,"date":"2021-10-25T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2021-10-25T09:02:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T09:02:12","slug":"sudanese-military-arrests-prime-minister-members-of-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/world\/sudanese-military-arrests-prime-minister-members-of-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese military arrests prime minister, members of gov’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sudanese parties call for civil disobedience in protest of ‘military coup’<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

KHARTOUM, Sudan, Oct 25 (AA): Sudan’s military arrested the country’s prime minister and members of the civilian government, officials in the capital Khartoum announced early Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ministry of Culture and Information\u2019s official account said a military force arrested Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok after he refused to support what it described as a “coup”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudanese officials, who declined to be named, confirmed earlier that military forces surrounded Hamdok\u2019s residence and placed him under house arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there was no comment from the Sudanese army on the development, the ministry said Hamdok was taken to an unknown location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to local media outlets, Industry Minister Ibrahim al-Sheikh and Information Minister Hamza Balloul are among the arrested ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) has called for protests against what it described as a “military coup against the civilian government.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political parties in the North African nation, including Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party and Sudanese Communist Party, called for civil disobedience in protest of the “coup.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a press release, they urged people to resist attempts by the army to seize power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eyewitnesses said there were protests in some neighborhoods of Khartoum against the “coup.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to an Anadolu Agency reporter on the ground, electricity and internet have been cut across large areas of Khartoum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a failed military coup last month, deep tensions between the military and civilian administration erupted in Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, thousands of pro-military supporters organized a protest against Hamdok’s transitional government in Khartoum, further escalating political tensions between the civilian administration and the army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protest came a day after thousands of pro-civilian government supporters held protests across the country, while pro-military protestors had been holding a sit-in outside the presidential palace for the last seven days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday night, Hamdok addressed the nation, praising pro-civilian protestors and pledging that his government would continue to support civilian rule and democratic development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country is currently administered by a Sovereign Council of military and civilian authorities, which oversees the transition period until elections slated for 2023, as part of a precarious power-sharing pact between the military and the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sudanese parties call for civil disobedience in protest of ‘military coup’ KHARTOUM, Sudan, Oct 25 (AA): Sudan’s military arrested the country’s prime minister and members of the civilian government, officials in the capital Khartoum announced early Monday. The Ministry of Culture and Information\u2019s official account said a military force arrested Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok after […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,342,6],"tags":[895,897,898,896,899],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-politics","category-world","tag-abdalla-hamdok","tag-coup","tag-ffc","tag-military-coup","tag-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}