Having lost the support of the street and the main opposition groupings Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok faces some stark choices: appoint the ministers of his choice triggering a confrontation with coup leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan or accept the new status quo of total military control...

The ceremony restoring Abdalla Hamdok to the premiership on 21 November had none of the celebratory atmosphere of the occasion in August 2019 when he was first appointed to lead the transition to civilian rule...

Hemeti's not so veiled threat to play the migration card may also help explain why western countries backed the Sudanese military's deal with Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on 21 November...

Burhan's ousting of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his foreign minister Mariam Sadiq al Mahdi who chaired IGAD's council of ministers froze the organisation's initiatives on Ethiopia...

Abdalla Hamdok the prime minister sacked by Burhan and put under house arrest is central to efforts to revive the transition by envoys from the African Union the UN and the United States (AC Vol 62 No 10 Transition under pressure)...

Army officers led by General Abdel Fattah al Burhan overthrew the transitional government on 25 October and put Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok under house arrest despite hundreds of thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets throughout Sudan five days earlier to protest against this eventuality...

According to South Sudanese sources Abiy accepted a proposal by Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok for South Sudanese President Salva Kiir to mediate in talks with the TPLF...