Sudan Revolution thread 2.5+

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/02/sudanese-bankers-stage-revolutionary-strike-after-military-coup

Sudan has been hit by a severe cash shortage as most banks and cash machines remain closed one week after a military coup prompted a nationwide strike by bankers.

About 90% of bankers were taking part in a civil disobedience campaign, said Ibrahim Abdel-Raheem, who works at the Workers National Bank in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. “We knew that going on strike as bankers would cripple the economy,” he said. “Banks are the backbone of the economy.”

More than ten people have been killed so far since the coup.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

The original thread was really short, was there any need to make a new one about the same events?

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The original thread was really short, was there any need to make a new one about the same events?

Ehh, that thread wasn’t bumped in a while. If the kids want to merge them, I’m all for it.

[CumbrianLefty]

Anyway, good to see that lots of people are resisting.

The new "government" is just a Saudi puppet anyway.

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Abdullah Hamdok is back as PM and has thrown everyone under the bus

In Sudan, a 14-point agreement was signed between army chief and coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and deposed prime minister Abdalla Hamdok. The deal has secured an agreement to release all political prisoners arrested since the coup. However, the ministers of the dissolved government, who will be released if the agreement is honored, will not return to the cabinet. The PM is to form a new cabinet made up only of technocrats with no representation from political parties.

After the military coup on October 25, the transitional government was dissolved and its civilian leaders arrested. Hamdok was also being held in house arrest since the coup.

The Sovereignty Council, the highest body in the transitional government, where the military and civilian leaders chosen by centrist political parties shared power before the coup, was also reinstated on November 11 after it was purged of the civilian representatives of political parties and replaced with other civilians favorable to the coup leaders.

Even prior to the coup, the military had held most of the real power in the transitional government. In effect, what has been secured by the agreement is not even a return to the transitional government – but a mutated version of it, rid of all representatives of political parties. They are to be replaced with technocrats who are not likely to pose the slightest challenge to the military’s political control.

The people will not be compromised any further.

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Hundreds of thousands of protesters on the streets against the coup-backed government

Hundreds of thousands of people marched to the presidential palace in Sudan's capital Khartoum on Sunday in protest at the Oct. 25 military coup, drawing volleys of tear gas and stun grenades from security forces, Reuters witnesses said.

Medics said scores of people were injured.

Some protesters managed to reach the gates of the palace and the protest's organisers called on more to join a planned sit-in there after sundown, but live video footage showed those who remained being tear gassed heavily.

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Hamdok has resigned

There also have been 54 people killed since the coup.