Friday, July 4, 2025 – HAN
PORT SUDAN – Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamal Idris on Thursday appointed three new ministers as part of his ongoing efforts to form a non-partisan, technocratic government, according to the state news agency SUNA.
The new appointments cover the ministries of health, agriculture and irrigation, and higher education. They are part of Idris’s plan to establish a 22-member “Government of Hope” tasked with leading the country through its political transition.
Idris named Muaz Omer Bakhit as Minister of Health, Ismat Qureshi Abdallah as Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, and Ahmed Madawi as Minister of Higher Education.
Bakhit, a neurologist and professor, is the founder of the Princess Al-Jawhara Centre for Molecular Medicine in Bahrain. Abdallah previously served as Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Khartoum. Madawi, a medical scholar and former Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Khartoum’s Faculty of Medicine, was part of a research team that discovered a new treatment for leishmaniasis in 2022.
The selections reflect a balance of professional expertise and differing political backgrounds. Madawi is seen as non-political, while Abdallah supported the popular protests that ousted the former regime and has since backed the army following the outbreak of war. Bakhit, who has lived in Bahrain for years, is an outspoken supporter of Sudan’s December Revolution.
These appointments follow Idris’s naming of defence and interior ministers on June 24 — key posts currently under military oversight during the nation’s transitional period.
