Did Sudan’s spy chief just get sacked?
Sudan’s president has allegedly replaced Salah Gosh, the veteran chief of the country’s National Intelligence and Security Services, with the organization’s deputy general manager. It’s not clear why the switch was made; the BBC reports only that Gosh has now been named President Omar al-Bashir’s "adviser." Gen. Mohamed Atta al-Mawla is in his early fifties ...
Sudan's president has allegedly replaced Salah Gosh, the veteran chief of the country's National Intelligence and Security Services, with the organization's deputy general manager.
Sudan’s president has allegedly replaced Salah Gosh, the veteran chief of the country’s National Intelligence and Security Services, with the organization’s deputy general manager.
It’s not clear why the switch was made; the BBC reports only that Gosh has now been named President Omar al-Bashir’s "adviser."
Gen. Mohamed Atta al-Mawla is in his early fifties and holds a degree in engineering, according to one Sudanese newspaper. In 1992, Mawla signed on with the country’s national security bureau and has been working in government ever since, even serving a year-long stint at the Sudanese embassy in Kenya.
His most curious position? "Peace advisory secretary-general."
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