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Reuters

Sudan’s new Prime Minister Kamil Idris has dissolved the country’s caretaker government, state news agency SUNA reported late on Sunday.
SUNA did not specify when a new government, the first since war broke out between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), would be announced.
Idris was appointed by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s head of state. The RSF has said since earlier this year that it would form its own parallel government with allied parties.
Idris took the oath of office on Saturday as the country’s first prime minister since a military-led coup in 2021.
In a speech on Sunday, he vowed to remain at equal distance from all political parties and to prioritise stability, security, and reconstruction in Sudan.
The civil war has killed tens of thousands and displaced 13 million – nearly a quarter of the population – in what the United Nations calls one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters.

The conflict has effectively split the northeast African country in two with the army holding the north, east and centre while the RSF and its allies dominate nearly all of Darfur in the west and parts of the south.
Meanwhile on Sunday, three drone strikes hit key paramilitary positions in western Sudan, witnesses said, as fighting between the army and RSF escalated.
The strikes in Nyala, the South Darfur state capital, targeted a hotel and a medical unit in the city centre and RSF-held positions on the eastern outskirts, residents said.
“We saw ambulances transporting the wounded to several hospitals,” one resident told Agence France-Presse in a message.
The RSF has controlled much of Nyala since the conflict began in April 2023 between Burhan and his former deputy, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
Air strikes on RSF positions have intensified, hitting Nyala airport – a key RSF base – and other targets.
In early May, army planes bombed RSF sites in Nyala and the West Darfur capital, El-Geneina, destroying depots and equipment, a military source said.
A cargo plane was also reportedly fired on while landing at Nyala airport, though the source did not say who was responsible.
Satellite images released last month by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab showed six advanced at the city’s RSF-held airport.
The Chinese-made drones appeared “capable of long-range surveillance and strikes”, it said.
Sudan’s army-aligned authorities have repeatedly accused the United Arab Emirates of supplying drones to the RSF – charges the UAE denies. The RSF lacks its own air force.
Sudan-UAE tensions boiled over last month when Khartoum cut diplomatic ties with Abu Dhabi after drones – believed to have been launched by the RSF – hit key infrastructure in Port Sudan, the army’s wartime capital.
After nearly daily attacks in early May, the strikes paused for a week before resuming on Saturday. Residents reported intercepts of drones by air defences north and west of the city.
Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse


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Kamil Idris, Sudan’s first premier in more than three years, is poised to form new government


Kamil Idris, Sudan’s first premier in more than three years, is poised to form new government.


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Sudan’s army-backed PM dissolves caretaker government

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Kamil Idris, Sudan’s first premier in more than three years, is poised to form new government

Kamil Idris, Sudan’s first premier in more than three years, is poised to form new government