{"id":198673,"date":"2025-05-23T12:41:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-aus-support-for-new-sudan-pm-sparks-uproar-among-political-and-armed-groups\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:41:56","slug":"sudan-aus-support-for-new-sudan-pm-sparks-uproar-among-political-and-armed-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-aus-support-for-new-sudan-pm-sparks-uproar-among-political-and-armed-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: AU&#8217;s Support for New Sudan PM Sparks Uproar Among Political and Armed Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Port Sudan \/ Addis Ababa \u2014 <em>The African Union&#8217;s (AU) cautious endorsement of Dr Kamil El Tayeb Idris as Sudan&#8217;s newly appointed civilian Prime Minister has been met with mixed reactions, drawing both applause and condemnation across Sudan&#8217;s political and military spectrum.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\"><a href=\"https:\/\/au.int\/en\/pressreleases\/20250520\/auc-chairperson-welcomes-appointment-civilian-prime-minister-sudan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a statement<\/a> by AU Commission Chairperson Mahamoud Ali Youssouf on Tuesday, he praised the appointment as a potential step toward restoring democratic governance. Hailing Dr Idris&#8217;s selection as a &#8220;a step toward inclusive&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505230008.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Sudan \/ Addis Ababa \u2014 The African Union&#8217;s (AU) cautious endorsement of Dr Kamil El Tayeb Idris as Sudan&#8217;s newly appointed civilian Prime Minister has been met with mixed reactions, drawing both applause and condemnation across Sudan&#8217;s political and military spectrum. In a statement by AU Commission Chairperson Mahamoud Ali Youssouf on Tuesday, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":198674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,8700,9663,19113,9835,257,6378,254,9617,4708,1613,6096,16699],"class_list":["post-198673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-among","tag-armed","tag-aus","tag-groups","tag-news","tag-political","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparks","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-support","tag-uproar"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}