The putschist general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan surprised many by reappointing three rebel leaders, Al-Hadi Idris Yahya, Malik Agar and Tahir Hajar, to the new Sudanese Sovereignty Council on 11 November. The three men are all members of the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC), the civilian coalition which the ousted prime minister Abdalla Hamdok relied
