On Thursday, January 16, 2020 the Transitional Sovereign Council appointed General Jamal Abdul Majeed as new Intelligence chief, after accepting the resignation of Abu Bakr Demblab. However, the newly appointed spy chief was formerly working as head of military intelligence.  

Demblab had submitted his resignation in the wake of the incident in the capital, Khartoum, and a number of regions, after a bloody  mutiny by forces from Operations Department of the Intelligence Service, which led to the death of two citizens and two soldiers.

 The Sovereign Council’s spokesman, Mohamed Al-Faki Suleiman, said in a press statement Thursday, that the meeting of the Sovereign Council had accepted spy chief resignation.

 “After consulting all the concerned authorities, Lieutenant-General Jamal Abdul Majeed Qasim Al-Sayed, head of military  Intelligence has been appointed as Intelligence chief.” Added Alfaki

 Al-Faki said the meeting of the Sovereign Council also called for the non-renewal of the Constitutional Court judges’ contracts  , whose employment have recently come to an end , and called for appointing new judges for the Constitutional Court

“The judges, whose contracts have recently expired,   spent their seven-year period working in the court”. Concluded the Alfaki