
Sudan Doctors Abroad (SDA): Statement against the Military Coup in Sudan – United in Support of Freedom, Democracy and Peace (25.10.2021)




“We are here to pave the way for the state institutions and unity and we are hoping that no political party in future will undermine our civil peace” – Al-Burhan (26.10.2021).
I don’t believe a man Lieutenant General Al-Burhan, the Sudanese Armed Forces General who served for several of years under former President Al-Bashir. No, I don’t eat his words and believes them. It is so conning of him to do this coup d’etat now. Just a month ahead of scheduled before the civilians would take more control of the Transitional Sovereign Council. Alas, he never intended to give away the power bestowed upon him.
Al-Burhan is an entitled man. He is a man who expects respect and honour now. The sort of fashionable big-man. An army commander who wants people to listen to his authority and be obliged to his decrees. However, it couldn’t be further from the case.
The second coup d’etat and the second time trying to hijack the revolution will not pay-off. The arrests of the signatories of the Juba Declaration. The leaders of Civil Society and the Unions will not salvage the case. The supposed house-arrest of Prime Minister Hamdok will do him no good either.
Calling this a “modification” of the transition is a lie. That several of people have already died for and scores have injured. While live-bullets, heavy weaponry and assaults on civilians has caused harm. The army wants to rule in fear and terror. Why should these gentlemen rule? When they cannot even be civil about it? There is no humility and grace about them. Only the size of the guns and the supposed pecker who probably is working too.
We know the authorities under Al-Burhan has no pride or justification for the power-grab. When the soldiers are raiding and assaulting students on campus in Khartoum. There is no honour in this, but only ceasing all power. That’s why people are kidnapped and detained at unknown locations. This because, the general knows their role and their place in society. He needs to silence the voices of the revolution and the ones who inspire the masses. Alas, the ones who was on the streets was there just two years ago and can easily remind the general why they went there in the first place. It was not to anoint him, but to get a civilian government.
Al-Burhan is not a civilian and not the pontiff who everyone is supposed to look up to and learn their lessons from. No, he was custodian and a temporary one until the proposed general election. Al-Burhan did this the first time with the Transitional Military Council (TMC) after Al-Bashir and now he ends the Sovereign Council too. Where there was some civilian cabinet and measurements for a transition from him to civilian leaders. Alas, he “modified” that to takeover everything.
This only means that he wants “Yes Men” and “empty suits” who fits his agenda and his objectives. Where the “chain of command” is respected and honoured. As he couldn’t stomach the tensions and the negotiations with the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC).
“Singling a group to seize the transitional phase has become a threat to the unity of Sudan. The army has dealt with some crises that the government has failed and neglected. We have taken this position to restore the luster to the Sudanese people’s revolution” – Al-Burhan (26.10.2021).
We know his trying to sell a story, but I am not buying it. Not a single bit. As this is stifling the already shaky transition, which was in-effect. Where the TMC and the army commanders already had to much power. Now, Al-Burhan has ceased it all by use of arms, yet again. He thinks he can get away with it too. This man holds no grudges and no concerns. Right now it seems like he plans to whether the storm.
Hopefully, the calls for civil disobedience and act upon the revolution. It seems like those calls are answered. Al-Burhan cannot contain this forever. Neither can he arrest everyone. His troops cannot assault everyone and silence thousands-upon-thousands. That is a train that’s coming his way. Peace.



We have mercy on the souls of four martyrs of the Sudanese people who were assassinated by the brutality and bullets of the putschists, and we call for a speedy recovery for the dozens of wounded and injured in our people’s battle for freedom and human dignity.
The response of the masses of the Sudanese people to the nonsense of Al-Burhan and his companions from the coup tyrants was urgent and decisive. The revolution is a people’s revolution and the authority is its authority. The barbarism and terror of a group of mercenaries and adventurers will not control their fate.
The goals are clear and obvious:
Full civil national governance, independence of political and economic decision, and the establishment of a state of citizenship, freedom, peace and justice.
We call on the masses of our steadfast people, foremost of which are the neighbourhood resistance committees, and the union, demand and popular revolutionary forces in all parts of Sudan to continue confronting the military coup.
Using the proven tools of nonviolent resistance in the general political strike and #العصيان_المدني_الشامل And open until the defeat of the putschists.
– Closing all roads with barricades to protect the revolutionaries, while avoiding clashing with the rabid forces of the putschists, in order to save lives.
Work strike.
Managing processions inside neighbourhoods
Solidarity and provision of consumer and medical needs to needy families, “You have a sister, you don’t have a scarf”
To inspire fear, nightmares and betrayal
And we came in the morning.
26th October 2021

Today, it’s official that the Transitional Military Council (TMC) took over. They are using force. The Rapid Support Force (RSF), the Janjaweed is involved in the coup d’etat together with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). Everyone is using their power. While the civilian parts of government is either house-arrested, taking hostage or detained. Therefore, the army commanders are taking all power.
There some updates, but only reported 4 dead. While over 80 people injured is reported at the Royal Care Hospital. While we don’t know nationally or total numbers. The internet is blocked and phone-lines are jammed. The international airport in Khartoum is seized-off as well. The Sovereign Council, as we knew it is history. As the President Al-Burhan has taken all power and decided to later appoint his own technocrats in cabinet.
There is also reports that the Minawi and Jebrel is participating in the weapons against the general public. This shows that the peace-deal between the rebels and the state is working, but the rebels are not fighting for democracy… that is clear and they have no issues using force against unarmed civilians.
“Sudan Central Doctors Committee: Military forces affiliated with the military coup prevent the Central Blood Bank employees from carrying out their work preparing blood for the injured. The methods of dictatorships are one and their fate is one and inevitable” (Sudan Central Doctors Committee, 25.10.2021).
“Rapid Support Forces use (12.7) anti-aircraft machine guns “Dushka” against defenseless citizens in the Berri Nasser area and brutal repression in the vicinity of Airport Street” (Girifna, 25.10.2021).
There are thousands of people on the streets. As well, as the military using all means to silence the crowds. The general public isn’t in favour of the military government. The FFC and it’s partners has called for civil disobedience and huge protests. The people have answered this call.
The public have put up road-blocks, while the army have tried to destroy them and with violent means. Meanwhile the general public have reacted. They was before the coup d’etat today on the streets. Therefore, the army and military commander could anticipate this. The same army commanders that hijacked the previous revolution.
General Al-Burhan and General Hemiti tries to silence everyone. Either by the guns or by the control of communication. The generals hope they can survive the condemnations and the international community crocodile tears. So, that they can enjoy the spoils … and not have the civilian leaders questioning them. That’s why they got rid of them today and announced “state of emergency” just to give Al-Burhan more power as well. Peace.

With Al-Burhan announcing today the outright coup against power, and his arrests of the prime minister and his staff, and civilian members of the Sovereignty Council, and the cancellation of a number of articles of the constitutional document, Al-Burhan brought the country back to the stage of the Transitional Military Council and before the agreement with civilians, and the formation of the transitional government.
With this, the proof confirms his confusion and his reading of the ancient history book, and that he leads the army of the homeland and the people against his will, and he falls into a fatal mistake that will lead him and his remnants to the dustbin of history, not regretting them.
We, in the Forces of Freedom and Change, reject the coup altogether and in detail, and we call on the steadfast masses of the people to go out to the streets, in order to preserve their revolution and to continue the peaceful initiative that has been its title since its launch on December 18, 2018. We call on all Sudanese around the world to go to the parliaments and ministries of foreign affairs in the countries in which they reside, to demonstrate and pressure not to recognize and reject it.
We also call on the Ethiopian President, the President of the Government of South Sudan, the African Union, the League of Arab States and the international community to declare their explicit rejection of this coup d’état and not to recognize it.
With this, we declare a state of comprehensive civil disobedience in all state facilities, and throughout the country until the following demands are fully achieved
1- The release of all detainees from the Council of Ministers and the Sovereignty Council, who are no longer authorized to negotiate with the Military Council, after the matter and decision returned to the people who filled the streets to recover their revolution.
2- All members of the Transitional Military Council step down and hand over power to the civilian government. The people fought and sacrificed martyrs for it
3- The people are the source of authority and only they have the right to delegate it to whomever they want. It is he who will determine who deserves this authorization.
Central Leadership Council for Freedom and Change
October 25, 2020 AD

As expected, the statement of the proof came filled with illusion and lies, and evidence of the tyrant’s separation from reality, and that he did not understand anything from the lessons of the glorious December, his reckless decisions will increase the ferocity of the resistance and the unity of the street after all the illusions of partnership have disappeared and the fig leaf has fallen.
Let us make Tatars and general disobedience a response to the nonsense of the proof and its cronies, and to break the state of emergency today with more crowds and evening activities is the first practical response that the decisions of the proof are not for implementation, but rather for the dustbin of history.
The proof has written its end with his own hand as he writes the words of this statement, and now he has to face the wrath of a people liberated from fear by the December revolution, the authority that the proof resolves is the authority of blood partnership, while the authority of the masses will uproot the proof and its assembly as a eaten storm.
25th October 20201

This was most likely planned at night by the military commanders within the Sovereign Council. The army commanders have grown tired of the civilian participation in the transitional government and wanted them gone. The Forces of the Freedom and Change Declaration (FFC) have pushed and pushed, and now the army is taking their power.
We shouldn’t be shocked by this, as the President Abdel-Fatah al-Burhan Abdel-Rahman and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemiti who could easily be behind it all. Though there been some speculations that the Rapid Support Force (RSF) haven’t supported this and there are possible ramification of the leadership there as well. If that is so… than Hemiti might not even be involved this time, but the other army commanders with loyalty towards Al-Burhan are. That wouldn’t be shocking either. I would still take those speculations with a grain of salt, as this would amass more power to Hemiti and his RSF/Janjaweed of Darfur.
There are coming reports that the civilian ministers are fearing for their arrests as the Prime Minister Hamdok is kept hostage at unknown location. While rebel leaders Al-Tabet Hajar and El-Hadi Idriss who was signatory to the Juba Declaration has also been detained today.
The Ministry of Justice Nasredeen Abdulbari have declared the unfolding events as a military coup and that is evident by the approach and the means of which the state actors are using.
President Al-Burhan have used all of this to declare “State of Emergency” as the citizens are going out on the streets to protest the regime move. The FFC and Sudanese Professional Association (SPA) have called for civil disobedience and revolt against the move.
The men of the Transitional Military Council (TMC) is back at it again and think they can get away with it. He has dissolved the Sovereign Council and the Empowerment Removal Committee. The cabinet is also dissolved as well, meaning the civilian participating in the Sovereign Council is now ousted out of office.
The phones and internet are disconnected as well. The airport is Khartoum is ceased as well. So, there is proof of the plan and how they wanted to take all control of the affairs. Where he will be in power and have his puppets on a sting ahead of a general election in 2023. As the President has informed of appointing his own technocratic government.
Al-Burhan thinks he has the sovereign rights to control it all. There is no difference between this man and the Al-Bashir. It is his henchmen who thinks his obliged to rule supreme as well. This is happening as the FFC and others wants answers and accountability for the martyrs of the recent revolution in 2018 and 2019. When scores of extra judicial killings happened, and nobody have been charged for it. Just like today, when 12 people have lost their lives in Khartoum as well.
This is a military coup and Al-Burhan is behind it. As he has announced it to everyone and initiated it. The FFC was to naïve and went to early into agreement with the TMC in the last round and now they have paid the price for that. Thinking these old men and their gunslingers would change for the better. Which today is proven, that they never did. Peace.

The Panel of Experts on the Sudan updated the Committee about the implementation of the Juba Peace Agreement, regional dynamics, the status of the armed groups in the region.
NEW YORK, United States of America, September 14, 2021 – Measures ‘No Longer in Line with Reality on the Ground’ Delegate Stresses
While Sudan’s post-revolution reforms continue to register progress and peace is largely holding, implementation of the 2020 Juba Peace Agreement remains slow and lingering intercommunal violence continues to plague the Darfur region, the Security Council heard today as the head of that country’s sanctions committee presented his quarterly update.
Sven Jürgenson (Estonia), briefing the 15-member organ in his capacity as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning the Sudan, outlined developments for the period 14 June to 14 September. He said the Committee held its first in-person informal consultation since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and received the Sudan Panel’s interim report as well as a briefing on its contents. It later issued a press release.
Among other things, he said the Panel of Experts on the Sudan updated the Committee about the implementation of the Juba Peace Agreement, regional dynamics, the status of the armed groups in the region, intercommunal violence and human rights violations. Both the Government of the Sudan and the Juba Peace Agreement signatory movements continued to promote peace in the Sudan, including Darfur. However, the Panel made clear that — except for power-sharing arrangements — the Peace Agreement’s implementation has encountered delays. Meanwhile, the regional context remains mainly favourable to the peace process in Darfur.
Regarding the activities of armed movements, he said the Panel informed the Committee that the Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) remains present in the Jebel Marra region. At the same time, there was some sporadic fighting during the reporting period in northern Jebel Marra between SLA/AW and Government forces. Mining revenues have helped SLA/AW build up its capability in terms of recruitment, training and weapons. In addition, the Juba Peace Agreement signatory movements have returned to Darfur, some of them engaging in recruitment, while also keeping a number of troops and weapons in Libya.
He reported the Panel’s assertion that, due to delays in the Peace Agreement’s implementation, insecurity persists in many areas of Darfur. “Despite the Government’s commitment to improve security, the Panel reported that intercommunal violence, attacks against civilians by the SLA/AW factions, human rights violations, including acts of sexual violence in conflict were recorded,” he said. In that context, enhancing the protection of civilians in Darfur continues to be of paramount importance and needs to be expedited. The Panel also cited the need for more efforts to address the underlying drivers of the Darfur conflict, including competition for scarce local resources.
Turning to the travel ban and asset freeze, he said the Panel reported that implementation remains a challenge. A new instance of a travel ban violation occurred when a listed individual, Musa Hilal, travelled to Chad in April 2021. Reiterating that the targeted measures and the arms embargo on Darfur serve the sole purpose of helping the Sudan to achieve peace, he said the Committee is assisting with the upcoming review of sanctions in order to best support the country in that ultimate goal.
Responding to that briefing, Abdalla Adlan Ali Ombali (Sudan) reiterated his Government’s longstanding and principled position rejecting the sanctions imposed on the country. “These sanctions are no longer in line with the reality on the ground in Darfur, compared to 2005 when they were imposed,” he stressed, adding that it is incumbent upon the Council to address the new reality in his country. Indeed, the situation in Darfur continues to improve every day, with a ceasefire currently holding since it was first announced. The Government is implementing the Juba Peace Agreement, it has deployed a joint civilian protection force, and it is working to address the challenges facing internally displaced persons and refugees.
Adding that the Government continues to engage the SLA/AW faction and prevent intercommunal violence, he pointed out that it is also working to promote and protect the rights of children. Dedicated units for the protection of women and children have been deployed throughout the Sudanese Armed Forces, which are responding swiftly to instances of violence. Underlining the need to speed up the capacity-building of the Sudanese Forces to combat the activities of armed groups, he said lifting the sanctions will help Sudan more quickly become a country that lives in peace throughout its borders. The Government will continue to cooperate closely with the Council, but it will not accept any sanctions expansions that do not meet with its approval, including measures that are unreasonable or that cannot be measured against clear benchmarks. “We expect to be treated fairly and objectively,” he emphasized.