By AFPMore by this AuthorKHARTOUM,Sudan's new military ruler General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan sacked the country's prosecutor-general on Tuesday, the military council said, after protesters demanded he be fired. "Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has issued a declaration sacking the prosecutor-general Omer Ahmed Mohamed," the council said in a statement. General Burhan replaced Mohamed with Al-Waleed Sayyed Ahmed as the country's new acting prosecutor-general, the council said. On Monday, the group spearheading the protest movement against the old regime demanded the military council sack the prosecutor-general. The protest organisers have also demanded the new military council be scrapped as demonstrators keep up calls for a civilian government through a sit-in outside army headquarters.

Source: Daily Nation April 16, 2019 16:50 UTC