Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla HamdokSudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned after another day of mass protests rocked the capital Khartoum, leaving two people dead.
Thousands marched against a recent deal he had done to share power with the army, who staged a coup in October.
Protesters Chanting “power to the people”, called for a return to full civilian rule. But military forces again responded with force.
Hamdok’s decision to quit leaves the army in full control.
It is another blow to Sudan’s fragile attempts at a transition to democratic rule after a popular uprising led to the overthrow of Sudan’s long-term authoritarian President Omar al-Bashir in 2019.
In a televised address, Hamdok said the country was at a “dangerous turning point that threatens its whole survival”.
He said he had tried his best to stop the country from “sliding towards disaster”, but that “despite everything that has been done to reach a consensus… it has not happened”.
Civilian and military leaders had made an uneasy power-sharing agreement after the army staged a coup on 25 October and initially placed Prime Minister Hamdok under house arrest.
The country was just one month away from transition to a civilian head of state when the army seized power.
