KHARTOUM, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan on Saturday appointed police chief Khaled Hassan Mouheiddine as the country's interior minister.
"Al-Burhan assigned the Director General of the Police Forces Khaled Hassan with the tasks and powers of the Minister of Interior," the sovereign council said in a statement.
Al-Burhan sacked in May the previous interior minister Anan Hamed Mohammed Omar, who was also the general director of the police.
Sudan has been witnessing deadly clashes between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum and other areas since April 15, resulting in over 3,000 deaths and more than 6,000 injuries, according to figures released by the Sudanese Health Ministry.
More than 3 million people have been forced into displacement, inside and outside the country, since the conflict broke out in Sudan, according to UN estimates. ■