At the press conference Hemeti was the driving force while former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok had little new to say...

The first great hope this year was the Coordination of the Civilian Political Forces (Tagadum) Initiative headed by ousted Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok...

Their position was greatly strengthened after the coup led by Burhan and RSF Commander Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' in October 2021 which ousted the transitional government and its Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok...

Some suggested the exercise seemed to absolve former prime minister Abdalla Hamdok and the core FFC politicians from the mistakes they had made in the thwarted transition before the coup in October 2021...

Former prime minister Abdalla Hamdok has made similar claims...

Critics of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok argued he was neither a technocrat nor a political strategist...

Moussa Faki Mahamat the AU Commission chairman was asking the same question on the fringes of Mo Ibrahim's governance weekend on 28-30 April in Nairobi at which he and Sudan's ousted prime minister Abdalla Hamdok were star speakers...

As Amgad Fareid Eltayeb a former advisor to the deposed prime minister Abdalla Hamdok argued sanctions may have worked earlier 'to stop bad actors doing bad things' but in a time of war it's hard to imagine they would alter either side's calculations...

Names for the new Prime minister are circulating but the former premier Abdalla Hamdok is no longer a likely candidate...

After the military's seizure of power and ousting of civilian prime minister Abdalla Hamdok in October 2021 Burhan and Hemeti have differed publicly on several occasions (AC Vol 62 No 22 General Al Burhan's power grab)...