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Workers’ and professional organisations such as the Khartoum University Professors’ Union and the Executive Committee of the Sudanese Pilots Union have called on their members to join the street protests. Protests now forming down Africa St in #Khartoum in response to reported coup in #Sudan ?? /xSKe93DVRP- William Carter October 25, 2021 The masses have also established barricades to block the main roads and bridges, and burned tyres so the plumes of smoke could provide cover from the security forces. There are reports of over a million people taking part in demonstrations all over the city.
Huge columns of protestors – men and women, adults and children, all chanting and waving flags, many of them armed with sticks, tools, and other common implements – marched in their thousands on the army headquarters in Khartoum. The response from the masses was instant. Immediately after the arrest of Hamdok, the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA: the leading body during the 2018-9 revolution) issued a statement, calling on “the masses of the Sudanese people, their revolutionary forces, and the resistance committees in neighbourhoods in all cities and villages to take to the streets and completely occupy them…” The Communist Party issued a separate call for a strike to repel the “full military coup.”
This was followed by a televised public address from Burhan, declaring a state of emergency, the dissolution of the transitional government, and the installation of military rule until new elections in July 2023.
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The news director of the state TV network was also seized, flights in and out of the country were suspended, and an internet shutdown was initiated. In the early hours of yesterday morning (25 October), members of the armed forces, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, kidnapped the liberal Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his wife from their home, while several other leading political figures were placed under arrest. Read also our article from 2019, which predicted these events. What is required now is a relentless struggle to defeat the reactionary military leaders, once and for all. The enraged masses have returned to the streets in huge numbers, showing that the reserves of the Sudanese Revolution are not exhausted. This long-threatened putsch was the inevitable consequence of attempted reconciliation between the leaders of the 2019 uprising and forces of counter-revolution. Sudan’s transitional government has been toppled by a military coup.