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New cabinet list

    NAIROBI

    Sudanese President, Lt. General Omar al-Bashir announced a new cabinet on Friday, Sudanese radio, monitored by the BBC reported on 23 February.

    The new 31-member Cabinet is as follows: Lt. Gen. Omar el-Bashir: president; Ali Osman Mohammed Taha: first vice-president; Moses Machar: vice-president; Maj. Gen. Salah Ahmad Mohammed Salih: minister of presidential affairs; Gen. Al-Hadi Abdalla Mohammed al-Awad; minister of cabinet affairs; Mustafa Osman Ismail: minister of external relations; Maj. Gen. Bakri Hassan Salih: minister of defence; Maj. Gen. Abdel-Rahim Hussein: minister of interior; Abdel Rahim Hamdi: minister of finance and national economy; Awad Ahmed Al-Jaz: minister of energy and mining; Ali Mohammed Osman Yassin: minister of justice; Ghazi Salah Eddin Atabani: minister of information and communications; Nafie Ali Nafie: minister of federal government; Joseph Malwal: minister of aviation; Majzoub al-Khalifa Ahmad: minister of agriculture and forests; Samia Ahmed Mohammed: minister of welfare and social development; Jalal Yusuf Mohammed Digair: minister of national industry and investment; Riek Gaye: minister of animal resources; Abdel-Hameed Mousa Kasha: minister of external trade; Zubair Bashir Taha: minister of science and technological research.

    Ali Tamim Fartak was appointed minister of general education and instruction; Mohammed Tahir Ailla: minister of roads and telecommunications; Kamal Ali Mohammed: minister of irrigation and water resources; Gen. (retired)Alison Manani Magaya: minister of labour and administrative reform; Ahmad Bilal Osman: minister of health; Abdel Basit Abdel Magid: minister of culture and tourism; Lam Akol: minister of transport; Sideek Al-Sharif Ibrahim Yusuf Al-Hindi: minister of international cooperation; Gen. (retired) Tigani Adam Tahir: minster of environment and urban planning; Mubarak Mohammed Al Majzoub: minister of higher education; Issam Ahmed Al-Bashir: minister of religious guidance and endowments; Abdel-Basit Sabdarat: minister of parliamentary relations; Hassan Osman Rizzig: minister of youth and sports; Col. Martin Malwal Arop: minister at the council of ministers without portfolio.

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