SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Sudan opposition to nominate economist Abdalla Hamdok for prime minister

15/8/19: Multiple sources - Sudan opposition to nominate economist Abdalla Hamdok for prime minister

• Reuters, by Khalid Abdelaziz

• AFP

 Sudan’s main opposition alliance, the Forces of Freedom and Change, will nominate Abdalla Hamdok, an economist who has served in international institutions, to be prime minister in the country’s transitional government.

 The appointment of the prime minister is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 20 August.

 Hamdok was last working as Deputy Executive Secretary of the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa, and has held positions at the International Labor Organization and the African Development Bank.

 He served as an official in Sudan’s Ministry of Finance in the 1980s, before the military coup that put Omar Al Bashir in power.

 Last year, Al Bashir nominated Hamdok as finance minister in a bid to tackle Sudan’s economic crisis, but Hamdok turned the opportunity down.