As protests continue, Sudanese Prime Minister Hamdok resigns.

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned following a second day of major protests in the capital, Khartoum.

Thousands marched against a recent agreement he reached with the army, which launched a coup in October, to share power.

Protesters chanted “power to the people” and demanded a return to genuine civilian authority. Military forces, on the other hand, carried out another bloody crackdown, killing two individuals.

Because of Mr. Hamdok’s decision to resign, the army now has complete control of the administration.

It’s yet another setback for Sudan’s shaky attempts to transition to democracy, which began in 2019 with the toppling of Sudan’s long-time autocratic President Omar al-Bashir by a popular revolt.

He claimed that despite “all that has been done to reach a consensus… it has not happened,” he had tried his hardest to prevent the country from “sliding towards calamity.”
After the army attempted a coup on October 25 and originally placed Prime Minister Hamdok under house arrest, civilian and military officials reached an uneasy power-sharing agreement.

The reinstalled prime minister was intended to lead a ministry of technocrats until elections were held, according to the November agreement with Mr Hamdok. However, it is unclear how much influence the new civilian government will have, and demonstrators have expressed their distrust of the military.

On Sunday, tens of thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Khartoum and Omdurman, chanting and urging the military to stay out of politics.

Activists have declared 2022 to be “the year of the resistance’s continuation” on social media.

According to the pro-democracy Sudan Central Doctors’ Committee, more than 50 people have been killed in protests since the coup, including at least two on Sunday.

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the coup’s leader, has defended the coup, claiming that the army intervened to prevent a civil war from erupting. Sudan, he maintains, is still committed to a civilian-led transition, with elections scheduled for July 2023.