Sudan army chief names Bashir-era diplomat as acting premier

Port Sudan, Sudan: Sudan s army chief and de facto leader Abdel Fattah al Burhan appointed on Wednesday a career diplomat as the country s new acting...

Port Sudan, Sudan: Sudan's army chief and de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan appointed on Wednesday a career diplomat as the country's new acting prime minister, two years into the country's brutal war.

Ambassador Dafallah al-Haj Ali, a veteran envoy who once served as Sudan's representative to the United Nations under longtime military ruler Omar al-Bashir, was most recently the country's ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

The kingdom was the destination of Burhan's first foreign trip after the army regained control of the capital Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last month.

Since April 2023, the war in Sudan has pitted the forces of Burhan's army against those loyal to his former deputy, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

The conflict has killed tens of thousands, displaced 13 million and created what the United Nations describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.