Sudanese revolution

Sudanese revolution
Part of the Second Arab Spring
Sudanese protestors celebrating the 17 August 2019 signing of the Draft Constitutional Declaration between military and civilian representatives
Date19 December 2018 (2018-12-19) – 18 December 2019
Caused by
Goals
Methods
Resulted in
Parties

 Sudan

Lead figures

Non-centralized leadership

December 2018 – April 2019
Omar al-Bashir
President of Sudan
Mohamed Tahir Ayala
Prime Minister
Motazz Moussa
Prime Minister
Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti)
Head of the Rapid Support Forces
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf
Sudanese Minister of Defense
Salah Mohammed Abdullah (Gosh)
Head of National Intelligence and Security Service


April 2019 – August 2019
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf
Chairman of the Transitional Military Council (11–12 April)
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
Chairman of the Transitional Military Council (12 April – 21 August), Chairman of the Sovereignty Council (21 August–present)

Casualties
Death(s)246
Arrested1,200+

The Sudanese revolution (Arabic: الثورة السودانية, romanized: al-Thawrah al-Sūdānīyah) was a major shift of political power in Sudan that started with street protests throughout Sudan on 19 December 2018 and continued with sustained civil disobedience for about eight months, during which the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état deposed President Omar al-Bashir on 11 April after thirty years in power, 3 June Khartoum massacre took place under the leadership of the Transitional Military Council (TMC) that replaced al-Bashir, and in July and August 2019 the TMC and the Forces of Freedom and Change alliance (FFC) signed a Political Agreement and a Draft Constitutional Declaration legally defining a planned 39-month phase of transitional state institutions and procedures to return Sudan to a civilian democracy.

In August and September 2019, the TMC formally transferred executive power to a mixed military–civilian collective head of state, the Sovereignty Council of Sudan, and to a civilian prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok and a mostly civilian cabinet, while judicial power was transferred to Nemat Abdullah Khair, Sudan's first female Chief Justice. While it is mainly about this eight-month period, there are debates on the definition of the Sudanese revolution, which may also be interpreted to include the period during the prime ministership of Hamdok, who promised that the transitional period would carry out "the program" of the revolution.