Sudan coup sees military commanders detain civilian leaders and declare full power

Cairo — Sudan's interim Prime Minister Abdulla Hamdok and many of the country's other civilian leaders were detained on Monday as a military coup unfolded in the northeast African nation. The country's information ministry said Hamdok and the others were detained after he refused to take part in the coup by military commanders, with whom he and other politicians had shared power for just over two years as part of a transition to democracy after decades of authoritarian rule. 

The military head of the shared army-civilian transitional Sovereign Council, which had governed Sudan since August 2019 under a power-sharing agreement, took to the airwaves of the country's national broadcaster later on Monday to confirm that the military had seized control. 

General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman al-Burhan said in the televised remarks that the Sovereign Council had been dissolved along with the country's civilian cabinet, and he declared a nationwide state of emergency.