Sudan Coup Follows Prevailing Arab World Trend
by Jonathan Spyer, The Jerusalem Post
Originally published under the title “Sudan Coup: Generals and Islamists Prevail in the Arab World.”

The October 25 military coup in Sudan follows a prevailing trend in the Arab world.
A coup has taken place in Sudan. In a series of moves on the morning of October 25 straight from the well-thumbed handbook of Arab military takeovers, Sudanese military forces stormed the country’s state broadcaster. At an unspecified hour, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and a number of his ministers were taken into custody by the military. The coup’s leader and apparent instigator, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, then delivered a televised address in which he announced that an “independent and fair representative government” would hold power until elections, to be held in 2023.




