Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf

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Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf ( Arabic أحمد عوض بن عوف, DMG Aḥmad ʿAwaḍ b. ʿOn ; * in the 1950s ) is a Sudanese general and politician who briefly served as head of state of Sudan for a short time after participating in the Sudanese coup in April 2019 . He had previously been Vice President of Sudan since February 2019. However, shortly after he was sworn in as President of the Transitional Council, he resigned. His successor is the Inspector General of the Sudanese Armed Forces , Abdel Fattah Burhan .

Career

Auf was born in a village in Northern Sudan and went to the military academy in Khartoum . a. trained in Egypt .

After joining the army , he became head of artillery, later general and head of military intelligence and chief of staff , before being fired in June 2010 as part of a major military restructuring. After his military service, he served as the Sudanese ambassador to Saudi Arabia . In 2007 he was placed on the United States' sanctioned list for his alleged role in war crimes in Darfur . Links to the Janjawid nomads, who committed massacres of the settled civilian population, are accused. Auf is not one of those indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal in Darfur .

On August 23, 2015, he was appointed Minister of Defense of Sudan by President Umar al-Bashir , returning to a senior military position. Auf was named Vice President in February 2019, replacing Bakri Hassan Saleh after President al-Bashir dismissed his cabinet in the wake of the mass protests.

Putsch 2019

On April 11, 2019, he announced on Sudanese television the removal of the incumbent president al-Bashir, the dissolution of the previous government and the suspension of the constitution. In addition, free elections are to take place after a two-year transition period. Parts of the international press, however, interpreted these events as a military coup . The following day, Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf resigned in favor of Abdel Fattah Burhan .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The sources include 1954 ( "Sudan's Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf" , Povo News , April 11, 2019. Access date: April 13, 2019) and 1957 ( "Sudanese General Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf" , Majalla , April 26, 2019 . Access date: May 22, 2019).
  2. ^ After the military coup: Sudan's new president sworn in . In: Spiegel Online . April 12, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 12, 2019]).
  3. ↑ kry / dpa: Sudan: Awad Ibn Auf resigns as transitional president. In: Spiegel Online . April 13, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Profile: Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf… Sudan's Intelligence, Security Figure. Retrieved April 12, 2019 .
  5. ^ Sudan retires general sanctioned over Darfur . In: Reuters UK . October 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ Bashir appoints US sanctioned general as new defense minister . In: sudantribune.com . October 28, 2015.
  7. ↑ Who is Awad Ibn Auf, Sudan's new leader? Washington Post, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  8. ↑ ORF at / agencies red: Bashir arrested: the military takes power in Sudan. April 11, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Christoph Sydow: Military coup in Sudan: The dictator is gone, the dictatorship remains . In: Spiegel Online . April 11, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 12, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Awad Ibn Auf, Ahmed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES أحمد عوض بن عوف (Arabic); Awad am up, Ahmed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudanese general and politician
DATE OF BIRTH between 1954 and 1957