Khartoum airport reopened after temporary closure after a military coup

Khartoum International Airport resumed its internal and external flights, Wednesday, October 27, after a one-day stopover in Sudan, according to Al Sharq Businesses / Bloomberg newspaper.

Today, Tuesday, the Military Council suspended the activities of the airport after the coup in the African country.

The airport closure followed the arrest of members of the government, including Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok.

The Sudanese Civil Aviation Authority reported that flights will resume later today.

The same authority had announced, on Tuesday, the suspension of flights to and from the airport until the end of this month.

For the third day in a row, the capital, Khartoum, and the rest of the country’s major cities are witnessing popular demonstrations against the military coup.

The situation in the country

Sudanese media reported on Tuesday night that the army released the ousted Sudanese prime minister and escorted him to his home.

Abdullah Hamdouk has returned to the Kfoury neighborhood of Khartoum amid a heavy deployment of the Sudanese army around his house, according to the Sudan News Portal. There were no other details about the conditions of his release, nor was there a comment from Hamdok himself.

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On the same day, the head of the ruling military council, Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, reported that the Prime Minister was detained at his home during a press conference. Al-Burhan said the army had placed Hamdok in his home “to protect him after he received death threats.”

The Sudanese general said: “We feel that there is a threat to the life of the Prime Minister, which is why we keep him isolated,” adding: “He is in my house and journalists are free to visit him.”

The Sudanese army arrested Hamdok and several ministers of his civilian government on Monday, amid escalating tension in the country.

On the same day, Al-Burhan declared a state of emergency, dissolved the government and the Transitional Sovereignty Council, and suspended some provisions of a constitutional document describing the political transition in Sudan.

After the failed military coup last month, deep tensions erupted between the military and the civil administration in the North African country.

Before the army recently took power, Sudan was run by a sovereign council of military and civilian authorities, which oversaw the transitional period until elections scheduled for 2023, as part of an uneasy power-sharing agreement between the military and the government. Alliance of Forces of Freedom and Change.

* Translated by Daniel Gallego.

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