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Sudan's Prime Minister Intends to Resign within Hours: Reports


Wed 22 Dec 2021 | 01:16 AM
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Sudan Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has told a group of national political and intellectual figures that he intends to resign in the coming hours, two sources close to Hamdok told Reuters on Tuesday.

The decision comes a month after Hamdouk signed a political deal with the army chief Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan in 21 November.

The deal reinstated Hamdouk as prime minister and released government members and politicians who were arrested in the military coup led by the army chief Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan on 25 October.

Al-Burhan led a military coup that dissolved the government and arrested its members including Hamdouk, dissolved the sovereignty council and froze the constitutional declaration, which was signed in August 2019 and governed the transitional period.

Hamdok was reinstated on Nov. 21 following a coup a month earlier that saw the military take power and end a transitional partnership with political parties.

While several political forces took part in drafting the agreement, according to the sources, it has faced widespread criticism from parties and the general public.

On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people marched on the presidential palace rejecting both military rule and Hamdok’s decision to return, which he had said he took to preserve gains made during the transition and to end the bloodshed.