Sudan ruler sacks Khartoum envoy to Washington: Spokesman

Sudan's ruling military council on Sunday said it has decided to sack Khartoum's ambassador to Washington, Mohamed Ata, a former chief of the feared National Intelligence and Security Service.

"The military council has decided to sack Sudan's ambassador to Washington, Mohamed Ata," the council's spokesman, Lieutenant General Shamselddine Kabbashi, told reporters.