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Sudan intelligence chief resigns: military council
KHARTOUM, April 13, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – The head of Sudan’s feared National
Intelligence and Security Service, Salih Ghosh, has resigned from his post,
the country’s new military rulers said on Saturday.
“The chief of the transitional military council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan,
has accepted the resignation of… the chief of NISS,” the transitional
military council said.
Ghosh had overseen a sweeping crackdown led by NISS agents against
protesters taking part in four months of mass demonstations that led up to
the toppling of veteran president Omar al-Bashir in a palace coup by the army
on Thursday.
Thousands of protesters, opposition activists and journalists were
arrested.
BSS/AFP/MSY/1734 hrs