SUDAN CRISIS
Sudan’s Omar Bashir reshuffles his cabinet as economy slides
Khartoum — President Omar al-Bashir dissolved the Sudanese government on Sunday and named a new prime minister, moves aimed at fixing a crisis-hit economy battered in recent months by shortages of bread, fuel and hard currency. Bashir named Motazz Moussa as prime minister. He replaces Bakri Hassan Saleh, appointed in 2017 as the country’s first prime minister since Bashir came to power in 1989. Moussa had been serving as minister of irrigation and electricity before the government was dissolved. Saleh, who had been prime minister and vice-president before the shake-up, will stay on in the newly created post of first vice-president, and Osman Yusuf Kubur will be second vice-president. The announcement came just after Bashir called an emergency meeting of governing party officials in the presidential palace on the back of growing economic concerns over price rises and shortages. Fewer ministries No other ministerial appointments were announced, but the number of ministries in the new...
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