As leader of the council, he served as head of state for the last two years.īurhan was supposed to relinquish control of the council to a civilian leader in the next few weeks. But he was largely unknown in public life before he became chief of the Sovereign Council, a hybrid civilian-military body set up to guide Sudan to democracy. Sudan’s top general, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, is behind the military takeover.īorn in Sudan’s River Nile state in 1960, Burhan served as inspector general of the Sudanese armed forces and was its third most senior general, Reuters reported.
However, key opposition leaders also were swept up Tuesday in a new wave of arrests, including the younger brother of Sudan’s foreign minister, pro-democracy sources told CNN. It was not clear whether Hamdok and his wife are able to move freely after they returned to their home, or whether other government ministers and officials are also let go or still detained. PM Hamdok and his wife, as well as multiple government ministers and officials, were detained on Monday, and later returned to their residence on Tuesday, according to a source with Sudan Prime Minister Office and a military source. Several articles of the constitution have been suspended and state governors removed, Burhan also said. Sudan’s top general, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, said that the agreement with civilian members of the country’s transitional sovereign council “became a conflict” over the past two years, “threatening peace and unity” in Sudan. But on Monday, the military effectively took control, dissolving the power-sharing Sovereign Council and transitional government, and temporarily detaining Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. Sudan had been ruled by an uneasy alliance between the military and civilian groups since 2019. The move has crushed hopes for a peaceful transition of power following the ousting of former President Omar al-Bashir in 2019. Sudan has descended into crisis after the military dissolved the country’s power-sharing government and declared a state of emergency on Monday.
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