Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir ordered on Monday a government reshuffle that saw the replacement of his oil, interior, agriculture, youth and sports and justice ministers.
He also announced a new foreign minister replacing Ibrahim Ghandour, the country’s SUNA new agency reported.
Bashir's ruling National Congress Party introduced a number of ministerial amendments in its share in the cabinet.
The party relieved 13 ministers of their duties, in what observers and opposition figures dismissed as a rotation of power between the ruling political class.
The reshuffle saw Al-Dierdiry al-Dhikheri named as the new foreign minister, Ibrahim Hamid as interior minister and Azhari Abdallah as oil minister.
Dhikeri, former Sudanese ambassador to Uganda, had been a member of Khartoum's team that negotiated the separation of south from the north in 2011.
Hamid, an aide to Bashir, had previously headed the interior ministry from 2008 to 2015.
On Monday, the president also changed five ministers of state and eight governors, SUNA reported.
Last month Bashir fired Ghandour after he told parliament his diplomats had gone unpaid for months.
Before Ghandour's sacking, the president had also replaced the head of Sudan's powerful National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS).
Sudan has been facing financial difficulties amid an acute shortage of hard foreign currency that has seen the country's economic crisis further deteriorate.
The foreign currency shortage has seen the pound plunging against the dollar, forcing the central bank to devalue it twice since January.
Political analyst Khaled al-Tijani al-Nour told Asharq Al-Awsat that the reshuffle will not resolve the country’s problems.
“This is just a rotation of power among politicians,” he said. “They will not resolve the problem because they are not aware of how severe it is.”
“Had they been serious in confronting the crisis, they would not have waited six months (to introduce change). The country is experiencing a stifling political and economic crisis,” he stressed.
