9 members of the Sudanese army, including 3 officers, were killed in two separate confrontations on the borders with Ethiopia and Egypt, while the head of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, made changes in the General Intelligence and the Military Intelligence.

A Sudanese military source told Al Jazeera that 6 members of the Sudanese army, including two officers, were killed in confrontations with groups affiliated with the Ethiopian army in the Al-Fashqa Al-Soghra area on the border with Ethiopia.

The source confirmed that the army sent reinforcements from the Sudanese infantry forces to the area to confront the Ethiopian attack.

A statement of the Sudanese army had confirmed that its forces repelled the attack of the Ethiopian forces at Al-Fashqa Al-Soghra, and inflicted the attacking groups with heavy losses in lives and equipment.

The statement added that the Sudanese armed forces will remain on the lookout to try to thwart the harvest season in Al-Fashqa.

On the other hand, the Ethiopian army commander said that his forces did not attack Sudan, stressing that there is no reason to do so, especially since the two countries have strong relations.

Last December, the Sudanese army imposed its control over Al-Fashqa lands, after it was seized for a quarter of a century by what Khartoum said were "Ethiopian gangs", while Addis Ababa accuses Sudan of controlling Ethiopian lands, which Khartoum denies.

In another border development, but on the borders with Libya and Egypt, 3 Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were killed, one of whom was a captain, following clashes with a gang that is active in smuggling and human trafficking in the Shafer Leit area on Sudan's borders with Egypt and Libya.

The spokesperson for the Rapid Support Forces said that he would reveal accurate information about the operation, the losses suffered by the gang, the size and quality of the seizures, in a press conference to be held today, Sunday, at the forces' headquarters in Khartoum.

Changes to the security apparatus

In another Sudanese matter, the head of the Sovereign Council in Sudan, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, issued a decision today, Sunday, to retire 8 officers in the General Intelligence Service in the ranks of major general and brigadier general.

Late yesterday, Saturday, Al-Burhan issued a decision to dismiss the Director of Military Intelligence of the Sudanese Army, Yasser Muhammad Othman, and the Director of General Intelligence, Gamal Abdel Majid.

A well-informed military source confirmed to Al Jazeera that Al-Burhan issued another decision appointing Major General Muhammad Ahmed Saber as Director of Military Intelligence, and Lieutenant-General Ahmed Ibrahim Mufaddal as Director of General Intelligence.

The Prime Minister's Office also announced that Abdullah Hamdouk issued a decision to relieve the Sudanese Police Director and his deputy from their posts.

Hamdok appointed Anan Hamed Muhammad Omar as Director-General of the Police Forces, and Mudasir Abd al-Rahman Nasr al-Din Abdullah as Deputy Director-General of the Police Forces and General Inspector.

The prime minister did not specify the reasons for dismissing the police director and his deputy, but the two men were supervising the security forces that responded to the demonstrations, which left 42 people dead, including 4 boys, and hundreds of wounded.

Although the police denied firing at the demonstrators, the doctors' union accused the security forces of "targeting the heads, necks and chests" of the demonstrators with live and rubber bullets, and also fired tear gas at them.


Re-arrest

In a related context, the daughter of the former Sudanese Minister of Industry Ibrahim Al-Sheikh said that a security agency arrested her father again after completing the procedures for his release and his release from the detention of the General Intelligence and Security Service yesterday, Saturday.

Shaima Ibrahim Al-Sheikh added to Al-Jazeera that they do not know any details of his arrest again.

In a statement today, Sunday, the Sudanese Congress Party held the Sudanese authority responsible for the safety of Minister Ibrahim Al-Sheikh, all political detainees and the resistance committees.

In turn, a member of the Legal Committee of the Forces of Freedom and Change Alliance, Moez Hazrat, told Al-Jazeera that the army opened complaints against 25 leaders of the coalition immediately after their release from detention, including constitutionalists in the isolated government.

Hazrat confirmed that among the accused were the former member of the Sovereignty Council Muhammad al-Faki, the former Minister of Industry Ibrahim al-Sheikh, a member of the committee to dismantle the June 30 regime and the spokesman of the Federal Gathering Party Jaafar Hassan.

In turn, the Troika countries (Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States) welcomed today, Sunday, the Sudanese authorities' release of political detainees, expressing their aspiration for the release of all detainees because of their political views.

A statement by the Troika countries, published by the US embassy in Khartoum, affirmed that the release of all political detainees in Sudan is a necessary step to build confidence and return the country to the path of democracy.

There is no number announced by the Sudanese authorities about the number of detainees since the Burhan procedures, but opponents of these procedures estimate the number in the hundreds.

On October 25, a severe crisis erupted in Sudan, as the Commander-in-Chief of the army, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, declared a state of emergency, dissolving the Sovereignty Councils and the transitional ministers and releasing the governors, after 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, a week ago, stipulating the return of Hamdok to his post about a month after his dismissal.

In return for countries and regional and international organizations welcoming the agreement, isolated ministers, coalitions and political parties in Sudan announced their rejection of it, considering it an "attempt to legitimize the coup" and prevent the establishment of a democratic civil state.