SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Sudan appoints first female judiciary head to fight corruption
10/10/19: Multiple sources – Sudan appoints first female judiciary head to fight corruption
Sudan’s transitional government has named Neamat Kheir, a veteran judge, as the first woman chief of the judiciary.
Mohamed al-Fakki Soliman, spokesman for Sudan’s joint civilian-military Sovereign Council, said that Kheir, alongside the public prosecutor Taj Al-Sir Al-Hebr, will soon examine corruption cases and crime committed under al-Bashir.
As the former head of the administrative department of the Supreme Court, Kheir was known for issuing a ruling in November 2016 to preserve the ownership of a church in Omdurman to the evangelical church in Sudan. She is also one of the founders of the Sudanese Judges Club which participated in the four-month protests to topple the former regime.
She was nominated by the Forces of Freedom and Change, in recognition of the role played by women in the uprising, and attempts to remove al-Bashir allies from the judiciary.