The United States announced, Monday, October 25, the suspension of financial assistance of 700 million dollars to the Sudanese transition, victim of a coup d’etat orchestrated the same day by the military.
“We are suspending that entire amount,” said US diplomacy spokesman Ned Price. This decision, he added, does not concern humanitarian aid.
The country, which rose on Monday morning with the arrest of Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, several of his ministers and civilian members of the Council overseeing the transition, has been going through a transition since 2019 after the fall of former President Omar al-Bashir, overthrown after months of popular protest. On the same day, soldiers stormed state television, and General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, head of the council, announced the dissolution of the transitional authorities.
“Military officials must immediately release all political actors and guarantee their security,” Ned Price also said.
If Washington – like the European Union and the African Union – condemns this seizure of power by the military, Moscow sees it as “the logical result of a failed policy.”
