Sudan’s revolutionaries vow to resist military’s power grab

NAIROBI — As dawn broke Monday, countless young men and women who for nearly three years have routinely flooded Sudan’s streets to call for a civilian government woke up to the sound of their phones incessantly buzzing with messages carrying gut-wrenching news.

The civilian leader of the government, Abdalla Hamdok, had been detained by the military along with his wife. So had almost his entire cabinet. Security forces had already spread out across the capital, Khartoum, and the Internet that the citizens were using for messaging was about to be throttled.