Who are Al Bashir’s former right-hand men that are stilll calling the shots?
Sudanese officers who ousted Omar Al Bashir announced that a military council will run the country for a period lasting up to two years, followed by elections.
But a day later, Gen Awad Ibn Auf, the ousted leader’s first vice president, stepped down as the council’s head.
Gen Ibn Auf said he chose Lt Gen Abdel Fattah Al Burhan as the new head of the council.
The leader of the council’s political committee, Omar Zain Al Abideen, told a news conference on Friday the announcement of the remaining members had been delayed for further consultations.
It remains unknown when these members will be announced or how many people will be on the committee.
Here are the men who stepped in after Mr Al Bashir was forced from office:
Abdel Fattah Al Burhan
Lt Gen Al Burhan, is a “veteran soldier” largely unknown outside the army. Protesters, determined to see a civilian government regarded Mr Ibn Auf as a regime insider and a close aide of the toppled leader. Gen Ibn Auf’s exit catapulted Lt Gen Al Burhan from the shadows to the de facto head of the country.
“Burhan is a high-ranking officer within the armed forces, but basically he’s a veteran soldier,” said an army officer, who did not want to be named.
“He’s never been in the limelight like Ibn Auf or Gen Kamal Abdelmarouf,” the officer said, referring to the army’s former chief of staff.
Born in 1960, north of Khartoum, Lt Gen Al Burhan studied in a Sudanese army college and later in Egypt and Jordan and was once Sudan’s defence attaché to Beijing.
He was commander of Sudan’s ground forces before Mr Al Bashir in February made him army inspector general.
Sudanese media and analysts say Lt Gen Al Burhan co-ordinated sending Sudanese troops to Yemen as part of a Saudi-led coalition against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
“Burhan doesn’t have any political leanings, he is a professional soldier,” the anonymous officer said. But as de facto head of the country, he will not be able to escape making difficult political decisions.
Awad Ibn Auf
Gen Ibn Auf was defence minister since 2015, before Mr Al Bashir promoted him to first vice president in February. He is widely believed to have strong ties to Islamists and is accused by the US of being a liaison between the government and the Janjaweed militia, blamed for many of the atrocities in Darfur.
Washington placed sanctions on Gen Ibn Auf and others in 2007 “for their roles in fomenting violence and human rights abuses in Darfur”. freezing his assets in the United States and banning Americans from doing business with him.
Kamal Abdelmarouf Al Mahi Gen Kamal Abdelmarouf Al Mahi was the Sudanese army’s chief of staff from February last year and is little-known in public life.
Gen Al Mahi, who is also thought to have close ties to Islamists, replaced Emad Al Din Adawi, who had been suggested as a successor to Mr Al Bashir. Gen Ibn Auf said he was relieved of his role as deputy head of the transitional council on Friday. Salah Abdallah Mohamed Saleh
Commonly known as Salah Gosh, he headed the country’s powerful National Intelligence and Security Service.
He previously led the service between 2004 and 2009, but was reinstated in February last year.
Mr Gosh served as a security adviser to Mr Al Bashir for two years before he was detained in 2012 and held for several months, accused of “inciting chaos”, “targeting” leaders and spreading rumours about Mr Al Bashir’s health.
In 2005, The New York Times reported that US intelligence officials had allowed Mr Gosh to visit the country for consultations with the CIA as a reward for Sudan’s co-operation in detaining suspected militants and providing information on Al Qaeda following the 9/11 attacks.
Sudanese intelligence was active in the attempted crackdown on protests that broke out in December and led – after four months – to Mr Al Bashir’s departure.
Mohamed Hamdan Daglo Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, commonly known by his nickname Hemeti, is the head of the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that grew out of the Janjaweed militia, which operated in Darfur.
The government has denied any wrongdoing by the RSF despite International Criminal Court indictments for senior figures.