On 25 October 2021, the Sudanese military, heed by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, arrested Hamdok and other senior government figures in a coup d'état. The Ministry of Ination declared that Hamdok was "still the legitimate transitional authority in the country" and ed for the "immediate release of the prime minister and all detained officials". The ministry also stated that "all unilateral measures and decisions taken by the military component lack any constitutional basis, violate the law, and are considered a crime." On 26 October, Hamdok, along with his , returned to his in the Kafouri neighborhood of Khartoum. Hamdok’s release followed international condemnation of the coup and s for the military to release all the detained government officials. On 27 October, representatives of the European Union, Norway, Switzerland, the United States and the United Kingdom declared that their countries "continue to recognize the Prime Minister and his cabinet as the constitutional leers of the transitional government". Views Agriculture Hamdok has pushed for a change from subsistence agriculture to "more dynamic, commercial oriented" agriculture in Africa, stating in 2014 that Africa was capable of food self-sufficiency, but that 300 Africans were hungry. Referring to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) estimate of the effects of a 2-degree Celsius global average warming above pre-indus levels, Hamdok noted that effects such as reduced rainfall could prevent Africa from reducing extreme poverty. To combat hunger, Hamdok proposed infrastructure improvements (such as methods of transing, storing and transporting excess produce to markets); the use of "climate ination"; improved water management; and greater integration of agriculture with national industry and science and technology research institutions . During his term he also t with the continent's locust infestation starting in 2019. Women's rights As Prime Minister, Hamdok h the role in late August 2019 of selecting ministers from a list of candidates proposed to him by the Forces of dom and Change (FFC), apart from the Ministers of Interior and Defence, to be chosen by military s of the Sovereignty Council. Hamdok delayed his decision on which candidates to select, stating that one his reasons for objecting was that too few women were present on the list. He stated that he would "take into account a fair representation of women". Four women became ministers in the Hamdok Cabinet: Asma Mohamed Abdalla as Foreign Minister, Lina al-Sheikh as Minister of Social Development and Labour, Wala'a Essam al-Boushi as Minister th and Sports and Intisar el-Zein Soughayroun as Minister of Higher Education. In November 2019, the government of Sudan repealed all laws restricting women's dom of dress, movement, assoc iation, work and study. Hamdok praised women in a message published on social media, saying that the laws were "an instrument of exploitation, humiliation, violation, aggression on the rights of citizens." In 2020, Hamdok passed a law to prohibit female genital mutilation. Personal Hamdok married fellow economist Muna Abdalla in 1993 in south Manchester. They have two grown-up sons; one studying at Exeter University as of 2019 and one who gruated from a university in the United States in the late 2010s.August.