On Friday, he imposed a nationwide state of emergency and dissolved the federal and provincial governments. RESHUFFLESOn Saturday, Bashir sacked his vice president and long-time ally Bakri Hassan Saleh, replacing him with Defence Minister General Awad Ibnouf. In a separate decree, he appointed Mohamed Tahir Ela, former governor of the agricultural state of Jazeera, as prime minister. RESIGNThe National Umma Party, whose leader Sadiq al-Mahdi was Sudan's elected prime minister when Bashir seized power in an Islamist-backed coup in 1989, said the protests against his successor's iron-fisted rule would carry on until he quits. "Dissolving the government and imposing a state of emergency is nothing but a repetition of this regime's failures," it said.

Source: Daily Nation February 23, 2019 19:41 UTC