Overview

• General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan named Kamil Idris, a former UN official, as Sudan's prime minister, marking the first such appointment since the 2021 coup.
• Idris, who has extensive international diplomatic experience, will lead a transitional government but is expected to operate under significant military oversight.
• The appointment follows the army's recent recapture of Khartoum in March, which displaced the RSF from the capital after months of heavy fighting.
• The conflict has escalated into an aerial phase, with RSF launching multi-day drone strikes on Port Sudan and other northeastern cities.
• The war, which began in April 2023, has caused over 20,000 deaths, displaced nearly 13 million people, and left half of Sudan's population facing hunger.