An informed military source revealed to Al Jazeera that the President of the Sovereign Council in Sudan, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, issued a decision to relieve the Director of Military Intelligence of the Sudanese Army, Yasser Muhammad Othman, and the Director of General Intelligence, Jamal Abdel Majid.
The source confirmed to Al-Jazeera that Al-Burhan issued another decision appointing Major General Muhammad Ahmed Saber as Director of Military Intelligence, and the appointment of Lieutenant-General Ahmed Ibrahim Mufaddal as Director of General Intelligence.
This step comes hours after Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdouk exempted the first human rights police, Khaled Mahdi Ibrahim Al-Imam, from the position of Director General of the Police Forces, and Lieutenant General, Human Rights Police, Al-Sadiq Ali Ibrahim, from the position of Deputy Director General of the Police Forces, based on 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 prime minister did not specify the reasons for dismissing the police chief and his deputy, but the two men were supervising the security forces that responded to the anti-coup demonstrations;
Which left 42 dead and hundreds injured.
Although the police denied that they had fired at the demonstrators, the medical unions accused the security forces of targeting the demonstrators with live and rubber bullets, and also fired tear gas at them.
On October 25, General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan announced the dissolution of all the institutions of the transitional authority, ending power-sharing with his civilian partners under an agreement concluded in 2019 following the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir.