Sudan’s Burhan shakes up army, tightens control

Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan

Sudan's top army general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

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Sudan's army chief appointed a raft of new senior officers on Monday in a reshuffle that strengthened his hold on the military as he consolidates control of central and eastern regions and fights fierce battles in the west.

Sudan's army, which controls the government, is fighting a more than two-year civil war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), its former partners in power, that has created the world's largest humanitarian crisis.