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Sudan Military Chief Orders Release of 4 Civilian Ministers

Sudan's military chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. AFP file photo
Sudan's military chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. AFP file photo
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Sudan Military Chief Orders Release of 4 Civilian Ministers

Sudan's military chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. AFP file photo
Sudan's military chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. AFP file photo

Sudan's military chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ordered the release of four civilian members of the ousted government of Abdalla Hamdok, state television said on Thursday.

The quartet were Hamza Baloul, Ali Jiddo, Hashim Hasabalrasoul and Yousef Adam, it added.

The United Nations has been coordinating efforts to find a way out of the country's political crisis following a coup by the military on Oct. 25 in which top civilian politicians were detained and Hamdok was placed under house arrest in the capital Khartoum.

The United States on Thursday called for the armed forces of Sudan to release all detained civilian leaders and protest organizers detained since the military takeover, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.

The coup derailed a transition to civilian rule and led to a Western aid freeze.

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Lebanon's Caretaker Prime Minister Visits Military Positions in the Country's South

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (C) arrives with cabinet ministers for a meeting at Benoit Barakat barracks in Tyre, southern Lebanon, 07 December 2024. (EPA)
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (C) arrives with cabinet ministers for a meeting at Benoit Barakat barracks in Tyre, southern Lebanon, 07 December 2024. (EPA)
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Lebanon's Caretaker Prime Minister Visits Military Positions in the Country's South

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (C) arrives with cabinet ministers for a meeting at Benoit Barakat barracks in Tyre, southern Lebanon, 07 December 2024. (EPA)
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (C) arrives with cabinet ministers for a meeting at Benoit Barakat barracks in Tyre, southern Lebanon, 07 December 2024. (EPA)

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has begun a tour of military positions in the country’s south, almost a month after a ceasefire deal that ended the war between Israel and the Hezbollah group that battered the country.
Najib Mikati on Monday was on his first visit to the southern frontlines, where Lebanese soldiers under the US-brokered deal are expected to gradually deploy, with Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops both expected to withdraw by the end of next month, The Associated Press said.
Mikati’s tour comes after the Lebanese government expressed its frustration over ongoing Israeli strikes and overflights in the country.
“We have many tasks ahead of us, the most important being the enemy's (Israel's) withdrawal from all the lands it encroached on during its recent aggression,” he said after meeting with army chief Joseph Aoun in a Lebanese military barracks in the southeastern town of Marjayoun. “Then the army can carry out its tasks in full.”
The Lebanese military for years has relied on financial aid to stay functional, primarily from the United States and other Western countries. Lebanon’s cash-strapped government is hoping that the war’s end and ceasefire deal will bring about more funding to increase the military’s capacity to deploy in the south, where Hezbollah’s armed units were notably present.
Though they were not active combatants, the Lebanese military said that dozens of its soldiers were killed in Israeli strikes on their premises or patrolling convoys in the south. The Israeli army acknowledged some of these attacks.