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Sudan Army Commander Reshuffles Cabinet

Sudan's military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan stands at the podium (File photo: Reuters)
Sudan's military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan stands at the podium (File photo: Reuters)
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Sudan Army Commander Reshuffles Cabinet

Sudan's military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan stands at the podium (File photo: Reuters)
Sudan's military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan stands at the podium (File photo: Reuters)

Sudan's Sovereign Council Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has reshuffled the cabinet, relieving five ministers of duty.

Burhan decided on Wednesday to terminate the assignment of five ministers, including Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Minister of Trade and Supply, Minister of Transport, Minister of Labor and Administrative Reform, and Minister of Animal Resources.

He then appointed Naeem Mohamed Saeed as the Minister of Energy and Mining, al-Fateh Abdalla Yousif as the Minister of Trade and Supply, Abu Bakr Abu al-Qasim Abdalla as the Minister of Transport, and Ahmed Ali Abdul-Rahman as the Minister of Labor and Administrative Reform, according to the statement.

The leader asked the Peace Parties to the Juba Agreement to nominate a replacement for the Minister of Animal Resources, Hafiz Ibrahim Abdul-Nabi.

It is Burhan's second ministerial change after he seized power in a military coup on October 25, 2021, which ousted Prime Minister Abdel Hamdok and the ministers of the former ruling coalition.

Meanwhile, clashes between the National Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Lt-Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, continued, especially in Darfur State.

Earlier, reports claimed Burhan plans to announce a caretaker government based in Port Sudan, which he took as his headquarters after he departed from the headquarters of the Army General Command in the center of Khartoum last August.

He denied the rumors, while Dagalo threatened to announce his cabinet with Khartoum as its capital.

Burhan returned on Tuesday to Omdurman, the second largest city in Khartoum, where he visited the Wadi Seidna Air Base.

The armed forces headed to Jeddah to discuss previous agreements on the withdrawal of the RSF from civilian neighborhoods and government and service facilities, said Burhan.

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Israeli Defense Minister Says He Will End Detention without Charge of Jewish Settlers

Palestinians look at damaged cars after an Israeli settlers attack in Al-Mazraa Al-Qibleyeh near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, November 20, 2024. (Reuters)
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Israeli Defense Minister Says He Will End Detention without Charge of Jewish Settlers

Palestinians look at damaged cars after an Israeli settlers attack in Al-Mazraa Al-Qibleyeh near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, November 20, 2024. (Reuters)
Palestinians look at damaged cars after an Israeli settlers attack in Al-Mazraa Al-Qibleyeh near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, November 20, 2024. (Reuters)

Israel’s new defense minister said Friday that he would stop issuing warrants to arrest West Bank settlers or hold them without charge or trial — a largely symbolic move that rights groups said risks emboldening settler violence in the Israeli-occupied territory.

Israel Katz called the arrest warrants “severe” and said issuing them was “inappropriate” as Palestinian militant attacks on settlers in the territory grow more frequent. He said settlers could be “brought to justice” in other ways.

The move protects Israeli settlers from being held in “administrative detention,” a shadowy form of incarceration where people are held without charge or trial.

Settlers are rarely arrested in the West Bank, where settler violence against Palestinians has spiraled since the outbreak of the war Oct. 7.

Katz’s decision was celebrated by far-right coalition allies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. National Security Minister and settler firebrand Itamar Ben-Gvir applauded Katz and called the move a “correction of many years of mistreatment” and “justice for those who love the land.”

Since Oct. 7, 2023, violence toward Palestinians by Israeli settlers has soared to new heights, displacing at least 19 entire Palestinian communities, according to Israeli rights group Peace Now. In that time, attacks by Palestinian militants on settlers and within Israel have also grown more common.

An increasing number of Palestinians have been placed in administrative detention. Israel holds 3,443 administrative detainees in prison, according to data from the Israeli Prison Service, reported by rights group Hamoked. That figure stood around 1,200 just before the start of the war. The vast majority of them are Palestinian, with only a handful at any given time Israeli Jews, said Jessica Montell, the director of Hamoked.

“All of these detentions without charge or trial are illegitimate, but to declare that this measure will only be used against Palestinians...is to explicitly entrench another form of ethnic discrimination,” said Montell.