THE PREMIER of the transitional government of sudan, Abdullah Hamdok survived a bomb attack against his convoy in Khartoum. According to the prime news on local tv, the ambush started at the arrival of the cars at the bridge, and Kober, which connects the North of the capital with the centre of the city, where the government has its seat. The dynamic of the attack is not clear: it is about a car bomb exploded at the arrival of the convoy, but witnesses quoted by Reuters claim that the attack “started at the top”. The prime minister, says the local tv, it was transferred to “a safe place”.

The attack comes as the african Country is launching a laborious reconstruction, a little less than a year on from the revolt and the civil by the military coup that deposed Omar al Bashir , transferring the power to the premier and to the Council, the sovereign, composed of representatives of civil society and the armed Forces.