{"id":21436,"date":"2021-02-09T15:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=21436"},"modified":"2021-02-09T15:05:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:05:30","slug":"sudan-pm-picks-former-rebel-leaders-in-new-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/09\/sudan-pm-picks-former-rebel-leaders-in-new-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan PM Picks Former Rebel Leaders In New Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sudan&#8217;s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has named a new cabinet which includes seven former rebel leaders who were part of a peace deal signed in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Hamdok dissolved the previous cabinet on Sunday to form a more inclusive government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two ministers were selected from the military. Many are from the Forces for Freedom and Change which led the protests that saw Omar al-Bashir ousted from power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prime minister gave the role of finance minister to the veteran rebel leader and economist Gibril Ibrahim. This at a time of sky high inflation and food and fuel shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being Sudan\u2019s foreign minister in a volatile region will also be a major test. That job has gone to Mariam al-Sadiqal-Mahdi &#8211; the daughter of Sudan&#8217;s last democratically elected prime minister, Sadiq al-Mahdi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are still military men in Mr Hamdok&#8217;s cabinet &#8211; a reminder of the awkward marriage between soldiers and civilians as Sudan continues its planned transition to democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan&#8217;s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has named a new cabinet which includes seven former rebel leaders who were part of a peace deal signed in October. Mr Hamdok dissolved the previous cabinet on Sunday to form a more inclusive government. Two ministers were selected from the military. Many are from the Forces for Freedom and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":21437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[5955,148,5954],"class_list":["post-21436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-abdalla-hamdok","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21438,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21436\/revisions\/21438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}