KHARTOUM - General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, commander of the army and chairman of Sudan's Sovereignty Council, issued decisions to dismiss security, military and economic officials as part of the bone-breaking battle between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, which has entered its second month.

Al-Burhan's decisions included the dismissal of Interior Minister Lt. Gen. Anan Hamed, acting director general of the police forces, the assignment of Lieutenant General Khaled Hassan as police director, and the termination of the service of foreign ministry ambassadors Abdel Moneim al-Bayti and Haider Badawi.

Al-Burhan also relieved the governor of the Central Bank of Sudan, Hussein Janqul, and appointed Burai Siddiq Ali as his successor, and retired four army officers for their commitment to work with the Rapid Support Forces.

Al-Burhan issued another decision to freeze the accounts of the rapid support and its companies in all Sudanese banks and branches abroad, and to prevent the disbursement of any deductions or budgets allocated to them.

Disappearance of officials

Sources in the Sovereignty Council and the Council of Ministers revealed to Al Jazeera Net that the military component in the Sovereignty Council – which manages the military operation in the face of the Rapid Support Forces a month ago – noted the inaction of officials in the government in charge and the absence of others for unjustified reasons, causing a vacuum and deterioration of services and disruption of work in important sectors of the state.

Anan Hamed, Minister of Interior, left the country's police director before the outbreak of the war to the Iraqi capital Baghdad, and then moved to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, and during his presence there began confrontations and lasted there 3 weeks, before returning a few days ago, and communication with him was faltering, which the military leadership considered an escape from responsibility in light of the country's emergency, according to the same sources.

The sources reported that large areas in the localities of Khartoum state were quiet, and police forces could have been deployed to maintain security and prevent looting and looting, as thieves took advantage of the security vacuum and looted public and private property and destroyed several markets, which contributed to complicating the security and living conditions of citizens and raised panic among citizens who accused the authorities of failing to perform their tasks.

The same sources pointed out that the deployment of the Central Reserve Police forces in the Arab market in central Khartoum and Kalakla in the south led to the stability of the situation and the return of security in these areas.

The dismissed governor of the Bank of Sudan, Hussein Janqul, left for his hometown in North Kordofan state after the security situation exploded, according to government sources, and it was not possible to communicate with him at a time when he could have stayed in Khartoum to address issues related to the banking system, as 15 of the country's 18 states were safe and the banking system could operate normally.

The sources added that the technical complications associated with the work of electronic clearing for money transfer and the company working in electronic payment through points of sale and bank applications could have been addressed in light of the suspension of the work of banks in Khartoum if the Governor of the Bank of Sudan was on the job, noting that the disruption of these services increased the troubles of citizens and exacerbated their living conditions.

Foreign Ministry Incitement

Regarding the termination of the service of Abdel Moneim al-Bayti, Sudan's deputy ambassador to Germany and former Foreign Ministry spokesman Haider Badawi, an official in the Foreign Ministry said that they belong to the Republican Party, one of the components of the Alliance of Freedom and Change Forces - Central Council, and have positions against the military component.

According to the government official, al-Bayti had included opponents of Burhan's decisions in October 2012 and considered them in a statement a military coup, and continued to criticize the situation.

Three days ago, Haidar Badawi published a letter to Foreign Minister-designate Ali al-Sadiq asking him to resign and not co-operate with what he called "putschists", he said.

Badawi said in his letter to his minister, "submit your resignation and do not make yourself an ally of the forces that shed the blood of our dear people, and what may befall you much less than what hit our martyrs and their grieving families, and we hope that other ministers and ambassadors will follow you, so you will have won the reward of this world and the hereafter."

Military disobedience

In the context of weakening the Rapid Support Forces led by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo "Hemedti", Burhan decided in the first days of the war to end the assignment of 480 army officers who were with the Rapid Support, which Hemedti considered a betrayal of him, and saw during a television interview that the withdrawal of these officers at the same time led to the handing over of his forces and camps in most states to the armed forces.

But four officers did not return to the army and remained with the RSF, prompting Burhan to retire them: Major General Hassan Mahjoub, Hemedti's chief of office, the operations officer of the Secret Support Forces, Major General Othman Hamed, the head of the RSF delegation to the Jeddah negotiations, Brigadier General Omar Hamdan, and the mobile commander of the Rapid Support Forces in the um Dukhun area, Brigadier General Absher Jibril.

Military expert Hassan Abdel Azim believes that Burhan's decision is unsuccessful, and it contains great leniency because any soldier or officer who violates the orders of his commander is placed in detention and a military court is formed for him, and the punishment can reach deprivation of military rank and deprivation of his financial rights.

Speaking to Al Jazeera Net, Abdel Azim says that the four officers rebelled against the army and refused to carry out the orders of the commander-in-chief, and cannot be rewarded by retirement and access to their financial benefits.

It is believed that Burhan's other decision to freeze the accounts of the RSF and its companies and stop disbursing any budgets allocated to them means that the salaries of the RSF will not be paid, which puts pressure on Hemedti and contributes to the restlessness of his forces, and he did not rule out that the tendency of some of them to loot and loot is behind their need to meet their needs that cannot be delayed.

House arrangement

Observers noted that the ministers whom Burhan assigned after his decisions in October 2012 to dissolve the Council of Ministers and impose a state of emergency have disappeared from the scene since the outbreak of the war a month ago, and only Finance Minister Jibril Ibrahim, who was based in the port city of Port Sudan in the east of the country, and held meetings with state governors and officials in the economic sector, and followed up the flow of goods and services and the movement of exports and imports.

One of the most prominent officials who played important roles during the crisis was the Governor of the Darfur region, Minni Arko Minawi, who left Khartoum with a convoy of military vehicles for his troops and settled in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State, and adopted with the state governors a plan to improve services, secure public and private property and main roads, and contain tribal violence in West Darfur.

Political analyst Bashir al-Ajmi said al-Burhan's decisions, issued a month after the start of the clashes in Khartoum, indicate that he is reassured by the progress of the clashes and the army's progress in achieving its goals, and has found time to review and evaluate the performance of state agencies and work to arrange the house so that they can carry out their tasks and contain the effects of the confrontations on civilians and return public life to normal.

In an interview with Al Jazeera Net, Al-Ajmi expected the issuance of other decisions from Burhan to activate the organs and institutions of the state, in addition to the issuance of decisions against Hemedti and his brother Abdul Rahim, where the first still retains the position of the second man in the state and his military rank, as well as the second is still an officer in the military institution, stressing that the delay in taking a decision on them raises many questions.