Sudanese army commander removes police director general

Other countries
  • 15 May, 2023
  • 12:32
Sudanese army commander removes police director general

The head of Sudan’s Sovereign Council (governing body), Army Commander Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman al-Burhan, has removed Police Director General Anan Hamid Mohammed Omar from his post, Report informs referring to TASS.

According to the decree of al-Burhan, from May 15, “the duties of the general director of the police are assigned to Lieutenant General Khaled Hasan Muhyiddin.”

The layoffs also affected the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to an army spokesman, al-Burhan removed two distinguished Sudanese diplomats from their posts, one of whom Haider Badawi Sadiq had long served as foreign ministry spokesman, the other was Abdel Muneim al-Beyti, the republic’s former ambassador to Germany.