Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has appointed a top aide as prime minister, reinstating a post he abolished after coming to power in a 1989 coup, an official said.
Bakri Hassan Saleh will be sworn in on Thursday and immediately start negotiations on forming a new cabinet, said ruling National Congress Party deputy leader Ibrahim Mahmoud.
Saleh will hold onto his current post of Sudan’s first vice president, Mahmoud said.
Sudanese lawmakers voted in December to reinstate the post of prime minister.
Saleh was among the officers who launched the bloodless 1989 coup, and the last member of the group to
source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/01/bakri-hassan-saleh-named-pm-by-omar-al-bashir/
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