Sudan's army chief appoints new acting foreign minister
By Reuters |
Hussein Awad Ali has been relieved of his duties, with Ali Youssef Ahmed taking his place, a statement from Burhan's office said.
Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has appointed a new acting foreign minister, following a cabinet decision issued on Sunday.
Hussein Awad Ali has been relieved of his duties, with Ali Youssef Ahmed taking his place, a statement from Burhan's office said.
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The move comes days after United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned attacks on civilians by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces last Friday as Britain said it would push for a U.N. Security Council resolution on the more than 18-month long conflict.
War erupted in mid-April 2023 from a power struggle between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ahead of a planned transition to civilian rule, and triggered the world's largest displacement crisis.
Britain, which assumed the presidency on Friday of the Security Council for November, said the 15-member body would meet on Sudan on Nov. 12 to discuss "scaling up aid delivery and ensuring greater protection of civilians by all sides."
"We will be shortly introducing a draft Security Council resolution ... to drive forward progress on this," Britain's U.N. Ambassador Barbara Woodward told a press conference.
She said the draft would focus on "developing a compliance mechanism for the warring parties commitments they made on the protection of civilians in Jeddah over a year ago in 2023 and ways to support mediation efforts to deliver a ceasefire, even if we start local ceasefires before moving to a national one."
A resolution needs at least 9 votes in favor and no vetoes by the U.S., France, Britain, Russia or China to be adopted.
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