Sudan&#8217;s Defence Minister Awad Ibn Auf said on Friday that he is stepping down as head of the country&#8217;s transitional military council, a day after former president Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in a coup, <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2019/04/12/head-of-sudan-military-council-steps-down-one-day-after-long-time-leader-bashir-toppled-in">Euronews</a> reports.
Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan will be the new head of the transitional military council, Ibn Auf said in a speech broadcast on state television on Friday.
It came after the military council said Sudan&#8217;s overthrown president Omar al-Bashir would not be extradited but could instead be tried in his own country.
The leader was indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) after allegations of genocide in Sudan&#8217;s Darfur region surfaced.
&#8220;We, as a military council in our term, will not hand the president over abroad. We may try him, but we will not hand him over,&#8221; said Omar Zeinalabdin, the political committee&#8217;s head.
Bashir, who ruled Sudan for three decades, was ousted on Thursday.
Sudan&#8217;s ruling military council announced earlier on Friday that it would run the country during a pre-election transition period of up to two years.
Ibn Auf is himself the target of sanctions from the US due to his alleged role as a liaison officer between the Sudanese government and militias accused of carrying out the genocide in Darfur.
He was also indicted by the ICC on charges of genocide.
Bashir&#8217;s fall came after months of unrest in Sudan that was sparked in December over rising prices. As many as 38 people have died in the protests.

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