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Spotlight | Sudan
Burhan faced with headache of replacing Hamdok

Sudan's General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. © EPA-EFE/Republican Media Palace/Handout/MaxPPP

In the hope of not totally alienating itself from the United States and the European Union, the regime of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is striving to find an acceptable replacement for its civilian prime minister Abdalla Hamdok, who quit the administration on 2 January. To avoid creating further tensions within Sudan's political class, the military is looking for a civil servant with international credibility, not unlike Hamdok... [...]

Published on 13/01/2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 4 minutes

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