Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok named four new advisors, including Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) deputy chairman Yasser Saeed Arman. He also sacked the national auditor and appointed a replacement to him.
Hamdok’s decree also appointed Aisha Hamad Mohammed as an advisor for gender affairs, Ali Juma Abdullah as an adviser on governance and institutional reform and Hassan Nasrallah Ali Karar as a peace adviser.
Hamdok removed Al-Tahir Abdul Qayyum Ibrahim from his position as a national auditor and assigned Fakhr al-Din Abdul Rahman Ali as an interim auditor.
The SPLM-N is part of the transitional government under the Juba peace agreement. SPLM-N leader Gen. Malik Agar is a member of the Transitional Sovereign Council.
The position of political advisor to the Prime Minister was offered to Yasser Arman after the resignation of the first government last February.
Arman ran in the 2010 elections as a representative of the SPLM before the secession of the South. He was pressured by several influential leaders in the movement to withdraw from the presidential race.