President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan has issued a presidential decree relieving Foreign Minister, Ibrahim Ghandour, of his position, state news agency SUNA reported on Thursday.
The news agency did not provide any further details or say who would be appointed in his place.
Ghandour had on Wednesday asked parliament to step in and help Sudanese diplomats, who had not been paid their salaries in seven months or given funds to rent Sudanese diplomatic mission headquarters abroad.
“The funds requested by the foreign ministry amount to less than $30 million,’’ he said.
That was the first public comment by a Sudanese government official on the central bank’s inability to provide foreign currency to cover state affairs.
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