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Hamdok detained in military coup

On 25 October 2021 Sudan's military under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan seized power, declared a state of emergency, dissolved the transitional government and Sovereign Council, and detained Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok along with other civilian officials.

Abdalla Hamdok (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 25 October 2021 Sudan's military under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan seized power, declared a state of emergency, dissolved the transitional government and Sovereign Council, and detained Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok along with other civilian officials. Burhan said the army would install a technocratic government and stay in charge until elections.

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  • Abdalla Hamdok

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    Hamdok detained in military coup. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.bbc.com — sourcebbc.com · verified
  2. 2.theguardian.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: hamdok+coup · verified
  3. 3.aljazeera.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: hamdok+coup · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Hamdok detained in military coup. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/hamdok-detained-in-coup-2021-10-25

https://factrail.ai/facts/hamdok-detained-in-coup-2021-10-25

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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