{"id":28030,"date":"2022-01-03T13:47:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T10:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=28030"},"modified":"2022-01-03T13:47:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T10:47:25","slug":"sudan-protestors-force-premier-hamdock-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/03\/sudan-protestors-force-premier-hamdock-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Protestors Force Premier Hamdock To Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sudan&#8217;s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned after another day of mass protests rocked the capital Khartoum.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands marched against a recent deal he had done to share power with the army, who staged a coup in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chanting &#8220;power to the people&#8221;, protesters called for a return to full civilian rule. But military forces again responded with force, leaving two people dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Hamdok&#8217;s decision to quit leaves the army in full control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is another blow to Sudan&#8217;s fragile attempts at a transition to democratic rule after a popular uprising led to the overthrow of Sudan&#8217;s long-term authoritarian President Omar al-Bashir in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a televised address, Mr Hamdok said the country was at a &#8220;dangerous turning point that threatens its whole survival&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said he had tried his best to stop the country from &#8220;sliding towards disaster&#8221;, but that &#8220;despite everything that has been done to reach a consensus&#8230; it has not happened&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan&#8217;s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned after another day of mass protests rocked the capital Khartoum. Thousands marched against a recent deal he had done to share power with the army, who staged a coup in October. Chanting &#8220;power to the people&#8221;, protesters called for a return to full civilian rule. But military forces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":28031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-28030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28032,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28030\/revisions\/28032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}