Sudan coup 2021: Live updates
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The World Bank said it had suspended aid to Sudan following the military takeover that deposed the civilian prime minister.
In a statement on Wednesday, World Bank President David Malpass confirmed it had "paused disbursements in all of its operations in Sudan on Monday and it has stopped processing new operations as we closely monitor and assess the situation".
He added: "We hope that peace and the integrity of the transition process will be restored so that Sudan can restart its path of economic development and can take its rightful place in the international financial community."
The United States also suspended aid to Sudan after the coup.
The Beja tribe are still enforcing a port shutdown and roadblocks in eastern Sudan, a leader of the protest movement launched by the tribal group told Reuters.
The tribes forced Red Sea ports to close in September in protest at what they say is the region's lack of political power and poor economic conditions. The closures led to shortages of essential medicines, fuel and wheat.
"We have nothing to do with the dispute in Khartoum," said Karar Askar, a leader of the protest group, referring to a military coup that toppled the government of Abdalla Hamdok on Monday.
The African Union has suspended Sudan's participation in all activities until the civilian-led authority of the transitional government is restored, according to a communique dated on Tuesday.
The statement comes after the African Union had called on the military to release leaders arrested in the coup.
A growing number of current and former Sudanese ambassadors are joining calls to condemn the country's military takeover.
Sudan's ambassador to Belgium and the European Union, Abdelrahim Ahmed Khalil, told Middle East Eye he will resign "if the situation doesn't improve" in the next few days and months.
"I'll quit and go back to my country and live like normal people...we are not going to serve another military dictatorship in Sudan," said Khalil, who has served as a civil servant for the last four decades.
Read more here on the diplomats who are standing against the coup.
With many parts of Sudan still without any mobile internet, some Sudanese civilians are now using graffiti to spread the word about mass protests on Saturday against the coup.
Pictures posted online on Tuesday, when the internet was temporarily restored, showed masked protesters tagging parts of the Al-Taif neighbourhood in Khartoum, calling on people to join protests against the coup.
Sudan's Beja tribes have announced an end to port shutdowns and roadblocks in the east of the country, Saudi-owned Dubai-based Al-Arabiya TV reported on Wednesday.
In recent weeks, the tribes have blocked roads and forced Red Sea ports to close, in protest at what they say is the region's lack of political power and the poor economic conditions there. The closures led to shortages of essential medicines, fuel and wheat.
The Beja tribes have expressed support for the military takeover by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
Doctors and oil workers from Sudan's state oil company said they plan to join the general strike against the country's military takeover.
The Unified Doctors' Office, a coalition of medical trade unions in Sudan, said it would not go back on its promise to join a general strike if a military coup took place against the transitional government.
"As we promised and previously announced we would enter a general strike across Sudan in the event of a coup, we are keeping to our word and timing completely," the Unified Doctors' Office said.
The Sudanese Communist Party has called for international solidarity with protesters in Sudan resisting Monday's coup, and stressed the need for "civil disobedience".
Faris Idris, a Central Committee member based in Khartoum, said he "expected to be targeted at any time" by the authorities, following General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's takeover of the country.
"[Though] I feel safe partially, it’s expected to be targeted at any time, especially if you are an activist," Idris told Middle East Eye. "There are great restrictions on movement; the coup authorities closed all the bridges across the capital. Until now, the Communist activists are not targeted, [but] everything is expected."
In a statement released on its Telegram page on Tuesday, the party called on the "forces of the revolution to go out to the street and break the state of emergency in order to protect the capabilities and gains of the revolution from the military coup".
"From our side we called for political public strikes as well as civil disobedience," explained Idris. "The protesters have blocked most of the streets."
Khartoum International Airport will reopen on Wednesday at 14:00 GMT, the head of Sudanese civil aviation has told Reuters.
The airport was closed from Monday following the ousting of Sudan's government by the military.
Workers at Sudapet, Sudan's state petroleum company, will join a nationwide civil disobedience movement declared by trade unions in response to the coup, the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) said on Wednesday.
A group of neighbourhood committees in Khartoum have announced a schedule of further barricades and protests leading to what it said would be a "march of millions" on Saturday, Reuters reported.
"We announce joining the civil disobedience in support of the people’s decision backing the civil democratic transformation and until this demand is achieved," the SPA, a group of trade unions, said in a statement.
The Unified Doctors' Office, which is made up of different unions, said: "As we promised and previously announced we would enter a general strike across Sudan in the event of a coup, we are keeping to our word and timing completely."
Sudanese security forces have fired teargas and rubber bullets at anti-army protesters, witnesses told Middle East Eye.
Mohamed Ahmed, a 23-year-old university student, said that protesters amassed in front of the army headquarters in the capital to protest the coup, but were fired upon by military forces, leaving a number of people injured with "rubber or even live bullets and teargas".
In an incident late on Tuesday, witnesses in the Bari district of Khartoum said security forces fired teargas at protesters blocking a main road in opposition to the military takeover.
The protests have seen at least nine people killed and more than 150 wounded at the hand of the military and the notorious Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary.
A video posted on social media also appears to show Sudanese security forces opening fire on protesters on the road leading to Khartoum airport, the Associated Press reported.
The video was filmed on Monday with a cellphone from the top of a building overlooking a protest and posted onto Facebook.
For more information, check out our latest coverage from Khartoum.
Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has been returned to his home a day after the country's military enacted a coup and dissolved the government.
"The prime minister... has been accompanied back to his own home in Kafouri district and security measures have been put in place around the perimeter of his home," a military source, who requested anonymity, told AFP.
Coup leader and army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had earlier on Tuesday said that Hamdok was "at my home... [and] in good health".
A number of countries and international institutions, including the US and the United Nations, have called for the release of the deposed premier.
The European Union has threatened to suspend financial support for Sudan if the military does not immediately return the civilian government to power.
"This attempt to undermine Sudan’s transition to democracy is unacceptable. If the situation is not reversed immediately, there will be serious consequences for the EU’s commitment, including its financial support," the EU warned in a statement late on Tuesday.
On Monday, the United States announced it would be suspending $700m in emergency assistance to Khartoum.
All flights to and from Khartoum international airport are suspended until Saturday, Sudan's civil aviation authority announced on Tuesday.
The head of the civil aviation authority told Reuters the suspension was due to the current events in the country, referring to the coup that took place on Monday.
Ibrahim Adlan said Sudanese airspace remains open to passing flights.
US officials have said they are in contact with the Gulf states about the ongoing situation in Sudan.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan made the comments in a press conference on Tuesday, adding that the US was looking at the full range of economic tools at its disposal to address the situation following Monday's coup.
"We firmly reject the assertions that this is within the authority of the military leadership in Sudan," he told reporters.
"From our perspective, these actions are utterly unacceptable."
