Bakri Hassan Saleh

Historic moment for Sudan as it gets its first prime minister, after the post was scrapped in 1989 over an Islamist-backed coup. Bakri Hassan Saleh, a former army general and top aide to President Omar al-Bashir was sworn in on Thursday after he was named prime minister, a day earlier by the executive bureau of the president's National Congress Par...

Historic moment for Sudan as it gets its first prime minister, after the post was scrapped in 1989 over an Islamist-backed coup. Bakri Hassan Saleh, a former army general and top aide to President Omar al-Bashir was sworn in on Thursday after he was named prime minister, a day earlier by the executive bureau of the president's National Congress Par...