| On 26 October, the African Union suspended Sudan's ship. The condition for restoring full ship of the AU is "the effective restoration" of the transitional government. The World Bank suspended its aid to Sudan follog the military coup. 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". They stated that the ambassors in Khartoum h to be given to communicate with and visit Hamdok and ed for the political detainees to be released. Citizens' associations Edmund Yakani, leer of Community Empowerment for Progress Organization, a South Sudanese NGO, condemned the arrest of Hamdok. He said that the arrest of Hamdok, the chair of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IG), an eight-country regional tre bloc, was "the first time in the continent that a sitting chair of a regional economic body like IG under detention." Yakani stated that Hamdok's arrest put at risk both the Sudanese peace process and the South Sudanese peace process, in which each country provided mediation for the other country's internal conflicts. On 29 October, the Ethiopian American Civic Council (EACC), "strongly condemned" the coup. EACC also stated its opposition to peace negotiations in the Tigray war, saying that negotiations would constitute "surrender" by the Ethiopian government to the Tigray People's Liberation Front, and that the US should support the federal Ethiopian government, which EACC sees as being democratiy elected15th Prime Minister of Sudan before he was deposed in a coup. Prior to his appointment, Hamdok served in numerous national and international ministrative positions. From November 2011 to October 2018, he was Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). UNECA staff described Hamdok as "A diplomat, a humble man and a brilliant and disciplined mind". In August 2019, Hamdok was suggested as a likely candidate for Prime Minister of Sudan for the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy. Follog the transfer of power from the Transitional Military Council to the Sovereignty Council of Sudan, the Sovereignty Council appointed Hamdok as Prime Minister during the transitional period. He was sworn in on 21 August 2019. He was kidnapped and moved to an undiscd location during a military coup on 25 October 2021. The European Union, the United States and other western powers have stated that they continued to recognise the Hamdok cabinet as "the constitutional leers of the transitional government". From 1981 to 1987, Hamdok was a senior official in the Sudanese Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning. In the 1990s, Hamdok held senior positions first at Deloitte & Touche and then at the International Labour Organization in Zimbabwe, followed by several years at the African Development Bank in Côte d'Ivoire. Hamdok was the Regional Director for Africa and the Middle East of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance from 2003 to 2008. Hamdok worked briefly for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in 2001 and 2002 as Director of Regional Integration and Tre and from 2011 to October 2018 was the Deputy Executive Secretary of UNECA. UNECA staff described Hamdok as "a true Pan-Africanist, a diplomat, a humble man and a brilliant and disciplined mind". |
