Sudan: Burhan Sacks Hemedti as Deputy of Sovereign Council

Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti. AP
Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti. AP
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Sudan: Burhan Sacks Hemedti as Deputy of Sovereign Council

Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti. AP
Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti. AP

Sudan's sovereign council head General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan issued a decree on Friday sacking Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, from his position as deputy of the council with immediate effect.

Burhan also appointed former rebel leader Malik Agar as a deputy on the council.

The army and the RSF have been locked in weeks of conflict that has killed hundreds of people and turned the streets of the capital Khartoum into war zones.

More than a million people have been displaced by fighting in Sudan so far, including a quarter of a million refugees, a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spokesperson said on Friday.

The latest figure includes some 843,000 people displaced internally and around 250,000 people who have fled across Sudan's borders, UN refugee agency spokesperson Matthew Saltmarsh told a Geneva briefing.

Refugees have streamed into Sudan's neighbors, including Chad, Ethiopia and South Sudan, with their own poorly-funded humanitarian crises. Egypt has so far received the highest number of Sudanese refugees with around 110,000 arriving there since the conflict broke out last month, Saltmarsh added.

"Many of those who have approached us are in a distressed state having been exposed to violence or traumatic conditions in Sudan, and having suffered arduous journeys," Saltmarsh said. The pace has increased in recent weeks, he added, with some 5,000 arriving each day in Egypt.



Four Dead, 13 Injured in Algeria Landslide

Algerian capital (file photo/Reuters)
Algerian capital (file photo/Reuters)
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Four Dead, 13 Injured in Algeria Landslide

Algerian capital (file photo/Reuters)
Algerian capital (file photo/Reuters)

Four people have died and 13 others injured in a landslide in Algeria's western coastal city of Oran, authorities said on Sunday.

The landslide occurred late Saturday in the city's Hai Essanouber district, the civil defencs agency said, AFP reported.

It said the four "deceased were between five and 43 years old", and that "13 other victims, aged between 12 and 75, suffered various injuries".

Authorities did not comment on the reasons behind the landslide, which the interior ministry said "caused the collapse of five tin houses".

With no one still missing from the landslide, the ministry said the death toll was "final".