{"id":7079,"date":"2019-07-25T10:36:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T05:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=7079"},"modified":"2019-07-25T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T05:36:14","slug":"sudan-army-chief-among-senior-officers-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/7079","title":{"rendered":"Sudan army chief among senior officers arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan&#8217;s military arrested a top general and several others over a foiled coup attempt announced earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The army said it had arrested Gen. Hashem Abdel-Muttalib Babakr, the head of the joint chiefs of staff, and at least 16 other high-ranking officers linked to a suspected bid to return the party of ousted President Omar al-Bashir to power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The military &#8220;revealed a coup attempt involving General Hashim Abdel Muttalib Ahmed, head of the joint chiefs of staff, and several high-ranking officers from the armed forces and the National Intelligence and Security Service, along with leaders of the Islamic Movement and the National Congress Party&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The failed attempt aims to abort your glorious revolution and to return the former National Congress regime to power,\u201d and to disrupt efforts to establish a civilian-run state, the council said.<\/p>\n<p>Babakr\u00a0was appointed chief of staff just days after Bashir was ousted in April, following\u00a0months of\u00a0protests against\u00a0the president&#8217;s 30-year rule. The ruling military council is trying to finalize a power-sharing deal with protest leaders\u00a0for a three-year transition toward elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan&#8217;s military arrested a top general and several others over a foiled coup attempt announced earlier this month. The army said it had arrested Gen. Hashem Abdel-Muttalib Babakr, the head of the joint chiefs of staff, and at least 16 other high-ranking officers linked to a suspected bid to return the party of ousted President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7081,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions\/7081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}