Sudan’s army chief and de facto head of state, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has appointed former United Nations official Kamil Idris as prime minister, as the country’s civil war grinds on into its third year. Tens of thousands of people have been killed, critical infrastructure has been destroyed and more than 12 million people have been displaced as a result of the conflict between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). “The chairman of the sovereignty council issued a constitutional decree appointing Kamil El-Tayeb Idris Abdelhafiz as prime minister,” a statement from Sudan’s ruling Transitional Sovereignty Council read on Monday. The Sovereignty Council, the body that encompassed the Sudanese presidency, has the power to appoint Sudan’s prime minister. However, the prime minister is not a member of the Sovereignty Council, and is instead a different branch of the country’s executive, focused on the day to day running of the government. Idris, a career diplomat, spent decades at the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organisation and was its director general from 1997 to 2008.

Full report : Sudan’s army leader al-Burhan appoints former UN official as prime minister.