Sudan risks counter-coup amid mass protests

Sudan could face a counter coup if military rulers and the opposition do not reach agreement on a handover of power to civilians.

Leading opposition figure and former prime minister, Sadiq Al-Mahdi made this known on Thursday.

Mahdi said members of the ousted president, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir’s national congress party and its allies in the army would try to exploit the uncertainty to seize power.

Mahdi was himself overthrown in a bloodless coup by Bashir in 1989 and imprisoned.