Sudan appoints new governor in Blue Nile
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September 20, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan
Al-Bashir has issued a degree appointing a new governor for the
country’s unrest-hit southern state of Blue Nile, state media reported
on Tuesday.
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New Blue Nile governor Al-Hadi Bushra smiles as he holds Sudan’s
defense minister Abdel-Rahim Hussein
Lieutenant-general Al-Hadi Bushra was named governor of Blue Nile
which has been racked by clashes between Sudan’s army (SAF) and
fighters of the armed opposition Sudan People’s Liberation Movement
North since 1 September.
Bushra will take over from the state’s interim military ruler who was
appointed following the declaration of a state of emergency in Blue
Nile and sacking of the state’s elected governor and the SPLM-N’s
chairman Malik Aggar.
The new appointee is a former oppositionist who was associated with
the National Umma Party of former prime minister Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi.
He left the country after the 1989’s coup which brought Al-Bashir to
power, at which point he was serving as a director of military
intelligence in the army.
However, he later made peace with the government and returned to Sudan in 1996.
Since that point, he served several stints in the government,
including as a minister of roads and bridges and governor of some
states.
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