India, May 20 -- After two years of civil war, the Sudanese army has announced a new prime minister. Army chief and de facto head of state Abdel Fattah al-Burhan named former UN official Kamil al-Taib Idris as the next prime minister.

This announcement comes nearly a month after the Sudanese army regained Khartoum as the war entered its third year.

"The chairman of the sovereignty council issued a constitutional decree appointing Kamil El-Tayeb Idris Abdelhafiz as prime minister," read a statement issued by Sudan's ruling Transitional Sovereignty Council on Monday.

With this, Kamil Idris will be the first prime minister of Sudan following the 2021 coup in which the government was ousted by the army.

Ahead of Idris' appointment as PM, ...