{"id":6626,"date":"2021-11-20T15:20:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T15:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6626"},"modified":"2021-11-20T15:20:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T15:20:04","slug":"the-coup-in-sudan-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6626","title":{"rendered":"The coup in Sudan, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Sudan\u2019s move toward democracy<\/a> is in peril, after the military seized control of the country\u2019s transitional government in a coup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country\u2019s democratic project began just two years ago, after Sudan\u2019s longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir<\/a> was ousted amid mass protests in 2019<\/a>. Civil society and protest leaders and the military ultimately reached a power-sharing arrangement<\/a> that put both in charge of the country with the commitment of transitioning to full civilian rule, which would lead to a new constitution and elections in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[The] coup<\/a> has upended that entire endeavor, fracturing what was already a tenuous arrangement between the military and civilian factions and jeopardizing any gains made. Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan\u2019s top general, orchestrated the power grab, detaining the civilian prime minister Abdalla Hamdok<\/a> and other civilian leaders, and firing ambassadors who resisted the takeover<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the coup also reignited resistance, as protesters returned to the streets in cities and towns across Sudan to denounce the military takeover. The Sudanese military shut down the internet<\/a>, making it difficult to fully understand the scope of the resistance \u2014 and the security forces\u2019 response to it \u2014 especially outside major cities like Khartoum. At least 170 people have been injured, and at least seven people killed in Monday\u2019s protests, according to data<\/a> compiled by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Some pro-democracy leaders have reportedly been detained<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/10\/29\/22751437\/sudan-coup-protests-al-burhan-hamdok<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Sudan\u2019s move toward democracy is in peril, after the military seized control of the country\u2019s transitional government in a coup.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s democratic project began just two years ago, after Sudan\u2019s longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir was ousted amid mass protests in 2019. Civil society and protest leaders and the military ultimately reached a power-sharing arrangement that put both in charge of the country with the commitment of transitioning to full civilian rule, which would lead to a new constitution and elections in 2023.<\/p>\n

[The] coup has upended that entire endeavor, fracturing what was already a tenuous arrangement between the military and civilian factions and jeopardizing any gains made. Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan\u2019s top general, orchestrated the power grab, detaining the civilian prime minister Abdalla Hamdok and other civilian leaders, and firing ambassadors who resisted the takeover.<\/p>\n

But the coup also reignited resistance, as protesters returned to the streets in cities and towns across Sudan to denounce the military takeover. The Sudanese military shut down the internet, making it difficult to fully understand the scope of the resistance \u2014 and the security forces\u2019 response to it \u2014 especially outside major cities like Khartoum. At least 170 people have been injured, and at least seven people killed in Monday\u2019s protests, according to data compiled by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Some pro-democracy leaders have reportedly been detained.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1123,431,660,259,1077],"class_list":["post-6626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-coup","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-military","tag-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6627,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions\/6627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}