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US pauses aid to Sudan, threatens military coup leaders with 'all measures'
 [RT] The US State Department has frozen $700 million in aid to Sudan, after the country’s military staged a coup and arrested the civilian government. A front man said the US is willing to use "all measures" to resolve the crisis."The United States is pausing assistance from the $700 million in emergency assistance appropriations of economic support funds for Sudan," State Department front man Ned Price told news hounds on Monday, adding that none of the aid money had been transferred so far. The funding was intended to help Sudan transition to democratic rule after long-time leader Omar Bashir was removed from power in 2019 in the wake of months of civil unrest and protests. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... that transition was thrown into disarray on Monday when the country’s military arrested Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other ministers in pre-dawn raids, and military officer Abdel Fattah al-Burhan — who had been charged with overseeing a four-year shift to civilian rule — dissolved the government and announced that the military alone would take charge of the remainder of the transition. Price told news hounds that US officials had not been forewarned about the coup, and that he could not provide any information on Hamdok’s whereabouts or condition. He called on the Sudanese military to immediately release the detained officials, and warned that the US is "willing to resort to any and all appropriate measures to hold accountable those who may be attempting to derail the will and the aspirations of the Sudanese people." While Price did not elaborate on whatever these "measures" would be, he did repeatedly cite the "peaceful protests" taking place in Sudan as something putting pressure on the military. Shortly after Price’s briefing, a gathering of Sudanese civil and political groups calling themselves the ’Forces of Freedom and Change’ called for mass civil disobedience and promised to fill the streets with protesters and overthrow the military junta. Posted by: Fred 2021-10-26 |
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