# Burhan dissolves the Sovereign Council and Hamdok cabinet on television Date: 2021 ## The fact On 25 October 2021 [Abdel Fattah al-Burhan](/people/abdel-fattah-al-burhan) announced on Sudanese television that he was dissolving the Sovereign Council and the [Abdalla Hamdok](/people/abdalla-hamdok) cabinet, declaring a nationwide state of emergency, and detaining civilian leaders. The move came weeks before he was due to hand the council chair to a civilian. ## Context He had chaired the Sovereignty Council since 21 August 2019 after the 2019 TMC. Hamdok is unresolved. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo remained his deputy until the 2023 war and is unresolved. A November political deal briefly restored Hamdok; Hamdok resigned in January 2022. 25 October television announcement; 26 October news conference. Stored as one 25 October 2021 Fact. Keep Burhan dissolves the Sovereign Council and Hamdok cabinet on television on 2021-10-25 separate from neighbouring Burhan instruments. The Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council and commander-in-chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces can dissolve a cabinet on television, order air strikes, and refuse to dissolve SAF. He does not write Human Rights Watch briefing notes, IPC famine classifications, or Reuters first-shot reconstructions. ## Evidence and sources Reuters carries the official instrument or communique. Al Jazeera records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is the owned SAF-civil-war driver: a completed military dissolution of the civilian-military transition. ## What is established and what is not Established: He announced the dissolution of the council and cabinet on 25 October 2021 and declared a state of emergency. Hamdok was detained. Not established: A unique 25 October death integer, or that Hamdok or [Hemedti](/people/hemedti) are minted Person rows. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Sharing TMC history with Hemedti is not a reason to drop 25 October 2021.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Burhan dissolves the Sovereign Council and Hamdok cabinet on television, not a later speech about Burhan dissolves the Sovereign Council and Hamdok cabinet on television. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Burhan dissolves the Sovereign Council and Hamdok cabinet on television on 2021-10-25 is not a licence to treat every later Reuters communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Burhan dissolves the Sovereign Council and Hamdok cabinet on television into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He announced and held the dissolution. Sharing TMC history with Hemedti is not a reason to drop 25 October 2021. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Abdel Fattah al-Burhan: https://factrail.ai/people/abdel-fattah-al-burhan ## Drivers - Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness - Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/capacity-for-peaceful-transfer-of-power - Civic Space: https://factrail.ai/drivers/civic-space - Burhan SAF civil war: https://factrail.ai/drivers/burhan-saf-civil-war ## Sources - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/26/sudans-army-chief-defends-militarys-seizure-of-power - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/general-who-led-sudanese-coup-2021-10-26/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sd-burhan-coup-2021