Sudan’s army leader Abdel Fattah Burhan appointed diplomat Dafallah Al-Hajj Ali as acting prime minister on Wednesday, weeks after the army’s recapture of Khartoum.
Burhan, chairman of Sudan’s transitional sovereign council, also approved the appointment of Omar Seddik, a current ambassador, as foreign minister, a council statement said.
In March, the Sudanese army drove Rapid Support Forces militia from most of Khartoum after two years of devastating conflict that split the country into rival zones of control. The RSF is still deeply embedded in western Sudan.
The war erupted in April 2023 over disputes about the integration of the two forces after they worked together to oust civilians with whom they had shared power after the uprising that toppled autocrat Omar Al-Bashir.
In February, Burhan said there would be changes to the country’s interim constitution, which military sources said would remove all references to partnership with civilians or the RSF, placing authority solely with the army which would appoint a technocratic prime minister who would then appoint a cabinet.
Sudan’s army leader Burhan appoints an acting prime minister, statement says
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Sudan’s army leader Burhan appoints an acting prime minister, statement says
- Dafallah Al-Hajj Ali appointed on Wednesday as acting prime minister
Bahrain arrests 4 suspected Iranian Revolutionary Guard spies
RIYADH: Bahrain's Ministry of Interior said Thursday that four citizens are facing detention for allegedly spying for Iran's IRGC, or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
A fifth suspect is still at large abroad, the General Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Forensic Science told the state-run Bahrain News Agency.
In a report on its news site, BNA identified the four detainees as Murtadha Hussain Awal, 25; Ahmed Isa Al Haiki, 34; Sarah Abdulnabi Marhoon, 36; and Elias Salman Mirza, 22. The fifth suspect was identified as Ali Mohammed Hassan Al Shaikh, 25.
The arrest comes amid relentless strikes by Iran on its Gulf neighbors — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE — in retaliation for ongoing US-Israeli attacks on Iranian territory.
