Sudan forces
By Our Reporter
The United States has suspended $700m in aid to Sudan after a military takeover and urged the immediate restoration of a civilian government.
“The civilian-led transitional government should be immediately restored and represents the will of the people,” US Department of State spokesman Ned Price told reporters.
Thousands protest against arrests of civilian leaders in Sudan. Sudan security forces arrest PM Abdalla Hamdok, ministers‘Utterly unacceptable’: World reacts to Sudan ‘coup’
Earlier on Monday, the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said that three people had died and at least 80 others were injured on Monday after being shot by security forces during protests against the military takeover.
Thousands of protesters poured into the streets of the capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman following the early morning arrests of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other senior officials by security forces in the country.
Hamdok was moved to an undisclosed location after he refused to issue a statement in support of the coup, said the information ministry.
The chairman of Sudan’s ruling body, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, later announced the dissolution of the transitional government and the sovereign council and declared a nationwide state of emergency.
Sudan has been on edge since a failed coup plot last month unleashed bitter recriminations between military and civilian groups meant to be sharing power following the toppling of the country’s long time leader Omar al-Bashir two years ago.
The coup also comes just weeks before the military was supposed to hand the leadership of the council that runs the country over to civilians.
