Sudan’s president Al-Bashir sacks his security adviser Salah Gosh

April 26, 2011 (NAIROBI) – Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir has issued a decree relieving his senior security adviser Salah Gosh from his position, Sudan’s official news agency (SUNA) abruptly reported on Tuesday.

The sacking of Gosh comes after he publicly fell out with the presidential assistant and vice-president of Al-Bashir’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP), Nafi Ali Nafi, over the dialogue conducted with certain opposition parties by the Presidential Security Advisory, which Gosh chairs.

Salah Gosh served as a director-general of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) for several years until he was demoted to the rank of a presidential adviser for security affairs in August 2009.

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