Khartoum: The streets were blocked, the shops were closed, the telephone went down and the mosque loudspeakers knocked down the call for a general strike in Sudan on Tuesday, the day after the army seized power in a triggered coup where at least seven people were killed.
Life was stopped in the capital of Khartoum and the twin city of Omdurman crossed the Nile, with streets blocked by the army or by barricades founded by protesters.
That night seemed to have passed relatively quiet after Monday’s riots, when protesters took to the streets after the army arrested Abdalla Hamdok’s Prime Minister and other civilians in the cabinet.
A health ministry official said seven people were killed in clashes between protesters and security forces.
The leader of the takeover, General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, dissolved the Civil-Military Sovereign Council formed to guide Sudan to Democracy after the overthrow of Autocrat Omar al-Bashir who was ruling two years ago.
Burhan announced an emergency, said the armed forces needed to protect safety and security.
He promised to hold elections in July 2023 and submit to the selected civil government at the time.
On Tuesday he dissolved the committee that regulates trade unions, Arab news channels reported.
Ministry of Information Sudan, still loyal to Hamdok, said on the Facebook page, the transition constitution only gave the prime minister to declare the emergency and military actions was a crime.
Hamdok is still a legitimate transition authority, he said.
The main road and bridge between Khartoum and Omdurman are covered with vehicles by the military.
Banks and ATM machines are closed, and mobile applications that are widely used for money transfers are inaccessible.
Some bakery open in Omdurman but people queue for several hours, longer than usual.
“We paid the price for this crisis,” a 50s man looked for medicine in one of the pharmacies where the shares had ran low angrily.
“We can’t work, we can’t find bread, no service, no money.” In Western City El Geneina, Resident Adam Haroun said there was a complete civil dissatisfaction, with schools, shops and gas stations closed.
Professional Association of Sudanese, a coalition activist who played a major role in the rebellion that summed up Bashir, called for strikes.
Hamdok, an economist and former UN senior official, was detained and taken to an undisclosed location on Monday after refusing to issue a statement to support the takeover, the Information Ministry said.
The troops also arrested other civil government figures and members of the Sovereign Board.
The Western government has condemned the coup, calling for the release of civil leaders detained and threatening to cut assistance, which Sudan needed from the economic crisis.
The United States said it immediately stopped sending $ 700 million in emergency support.
Sudan has been governed for most of his post-colonial history by military leaders who seize power in the coup.
It has become a pariah in the West and is on the blacklist of terrorism u.s.
Under Bashir, who hosted Osama bin Laden in the 1990s and was sought by an international criminal court in the Hadue for war crimes.
Because Bashir was overthrown, the military shared nervous power with civilians intended to lead to elections in 2023.
The country was nervous since last month when the coup plot failed, was blamed for Bashir supporters, recrimination released between the military and civilians.
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