Sudan coup triggers alarm across world
United States says it was deeply alarmed at reports of the military takeover.
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United States says it was deeply alarmed at reports of the military takeover.
State Department spokesman Ned Price on Monday said the US was halting $700 million in aid and would consider 'all measures' to hold Sudan's military rules to account.
Sudan was gripped with uncertainty after military agents detained PM Hamdok.
The top U.S. envoy took to Twitter to announce his alarm over reports of a military coup in Sudan targeting the country's tenuous transitional government.
In a coup on Monday morning, the armed forces detained the prime minister and other top civilian officials. A transitional government had been preparing the country for full civilian leadership for the first time in three decades.