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Africa News of Thursday, 28 May 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Three former Sudanese ministers contract COVID-19

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Sudan's public prosecution service has on Wednesday, announced that at least three former ministers have tested positive for the deadly COVID-19.

According to reports, the ex-ministers are part of the jailed senior members of the cabinet of ousted former Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir.

They include Ahmed Haroun and Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein, both wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged crimes in Sudan’s Darfur region, and who the prosecution service said had tested positive for coronavirus.

Haroun was a senior Bashir aide while Hussein served as defence and interior minister. Ali Osman Taha, a former vice president, was also infected, it said in the statement said.

All three are under health quarantine in Khartoum hospitals, the statement said.

While the test results on two other detainees including Ali al-Bashir, a brother of the former president, came back negative, tests results are still awaited on two other suspected cases.

The prosecutor added that all other detained members of the former regime had refused to be tested for coronavirus.

The Arab African country, which has reported 4,146 coronavirus cases and 184 deaths, released more than 4,000 prisoners in March as a precaution against the spread of the disease in jails.