Seven dead and 140 injured in protests against military coup in Sudan By Reuters

Por Khalid Abdelaziz

KHARTOUM, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Sudanese military seized power from a transitional government on Monday and a Health Ministry agent said seven people were shot dead and 140 wounded in clashes between soldiers and street protesters.

The leader of the coup, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, dissolved the Sovereign Military-Civil Council that had been established to guide the country towards democracy after the overthrow of the autocrat Omar al-Bashir in a popular uprising two years ago.

Burhan announced the state of emergency, stating that the armed forces should protect security. He promised to hold elections in July 2023 and then hand over power to a civilian government elected at the polls.

“What the country is experiencing now is a real threat and a danger to the dreams of the youth and the hopes of the nation,” he said.

Young people who oppose the coup set up barricades in the streets and clashed with the troops. The main opposition coalition, Forces for Freedom and Change, which pushed for the removal of Bashir and negotiated the civil-military council, said on Twitter (NYSE 🙂 that it called for peaceful actions in the streets to overthrow the takeover of the power by the military, including demonstrations, blocking streets and civil disobedience.

Hamdok, an economist and former senior UN official, was detained and taken to an undisclosed location after refusing to issue a statement supporting the inauguration, the Information Ministry said.

The ministry urged resistance, saying that tens of thousands of people opposed to the inauguration had taken to the streets and been shot near the military headquarters in Khartoum. Central bank employees announced a strike to reject the coup, the ministry said.

“Burhan cannot fool us. This is a military coup,” said a young man who gave his name as Saleh.

(Reports by Khalid Abdelaziz, Nafisa Eltahir, Moataz Abdelazim, Enas Alashray, Nadine Awadalla, Daniel Moshashai, Patricia Zengerle, Nandita Bose, Trevor Hunnicutt and Doina Chiacu; writing by Aidan Lewis, Michael Georgy; editing by Peter Graff, Angus MacSwan and Grant McCool, translated by José Muñoz in the Gdańsk newsroom)

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