Hamdok appoints a new Director-General of the Sudanese Police, after dismissing the previous director

The Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) said that Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok issued a decision today releasing Lieutenant-General Khaled Mahdi Ibrahim Al-Imam from the position of Director General of the Police Forces, and Lieutenant-General of Human Rights Police, Al-Sadiq Ali Ibrahim from the position of Deputy Director-General of the Police Forces, based on the to the provisions of the constitutional document.

Hamdok announced the appointment of Human Rights Police Lieutenant-General Anan Hamed Muhammad Omar as Director General of the Police Forces, and Police Major General Muddathir Abdul Rahman Nasr Al-Din Abdullah as Deputy Director General of the Police Forces and Inspector General.

The decision directed the ministries of Cabinet Affairs, Interior, Finance, Economic Planning, Labor and Administrative Reform and other concerned parties to take measures to implement the decision.

This decision comes hours after the release of senior officials arrested after the decisions of Army Commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on October 25, less than a day after the start of a hunger strike.

This came in a brief statement issued by the Ministry of Information for the isolated government, which was published on the official documented page of the ministry on the social networking site Facebook.

Yesterday, Friday, the authorities released 5 political detainees, including Fayez al-Sulaik, former media advisor to Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok, and a leader in the Professionals Association, Muhammad Naji al-Asam, according to local media.

On October 25, an acute crisis erupted in Sudan.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, declared a state of emergency, dissolved the Sovereignty Councils and the transitional ministers, and dismissed the governors, following the arrest of party leaders, ministers and officials, within measures described by political forces as a “military coup.”

However, the army chief and the head of the transitional government, Abdullah Hamdok, signed a new political agreement, last Sunday, according to which Hamdok should return to his post about a month after his dismissal.

The political agreement also included an agreement to release all political detainees, and the two parties pledged to work together to complete the democratic path, with the 2019 constitutional document as the main reference in the next stage.