{"id":154947,"date":"2018-03-02T01:14:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T06:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=154947"},"modified":"2018-03-02T01:14:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T06:14:23","slug":"sudanese-president-names-new-military-chief-top-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/02\/sudanese-president-names-new-military-chief-top-commanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese president names new military chief, top commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_154948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154948\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Omar_al-Bashir_12th_AU_Summit_090202-N-0506A-137.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154948\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Omar_al-Bashir_12th_AU_Summit_090202-N-0506A-137.jpg\" alt=\"Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has reshuffled his military command, naming a new chief of staff, as well as leaders of the ground, naval and air forces. (Photo By U.S. Navy photo, Public Domain)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Omar_al-Bashir_12th_AU_Summit_090202-N-0506A-137.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Omar_al-Bashir_12th_AU_Summit_090202-N-0506A-137-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Omar_al-Bashir_12th_AU_Summit_090202-N-0506A-137-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Omar_al-Bashir_12th_AU_Summit_090202-N-0506A-137-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has reshuffled his military command, naming a new chief of staff, as well as leaders of the ground, naval and air forces. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=6058532\">(Photo By U.S. Navy photo, Public Domain)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CAIRO &#8211; Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has reshuffled his military command, naming a new chief of staff, as well as leaders of the ground, naval and air forces.<\/p>\n<p>His decree, carried by the state-run SUNA news agency late Tuesday, says Lt. Gen. Kamal Abdul Maroof Al Mahi is replacing Lt. Gen. Imad Eddin Mustafa Adawi as Sudan&#8217;s new chief of staff.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Bashir also appointed Lt. Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Burhan to head the ground forces and Lt. Gen. Salah Eddin Abdel Khalig as chief of the air force.<\/p>\n<p>The new chief of staff had served as Sudan&#8217;s military attache in China, and a non-resident attache in\u00a0<strong><em>South<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>Korea<\/em><\/strong>, North\u00a0<strong><em>Korea<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>The military spokesman Ahmed Khalifa al-Shami was quoted as saying the reshuffle comes within the framework of routine work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO &#8211; Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has reshuffled his military command, naming a new chief of staff, as well as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":154948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[47518,47517,1509,47516,2222,1911],"class_list":["post-154947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-imad-eddin-mustafa-adawi","tag-kamal-abdul-maroof-al-mahi","tag-north-korea","tag-omar-al-bashir","tag-south-korea","tag-vietnam","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}