Sudan's army chief names former UN official as new premier

Sudan's top army general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan holds a press conference at the General Command of the Armed Forces in Khartoum, on October 26, 2021. [AFP]

Sudan's army chief and de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan appointed on Monday former UN official Kamil Idris as the country's new prime minister, more than two years into a brutal war.

Idris, a career diplomat and past presidential candidate, was the director general of the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organisation and has also served in Sudan's permanent mission to the UN.