Sudan army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan appointed Kamil al-Taib Idris as prime minister following the civil war.

Piye, Napata’s third king, known more commonly in Sudan as Piankhi, marched north with an army that included horsemen and skilled archers and naval forces that sailed north on the Nile.

The drastic response to the Port Sudan attacks has been underpinned by a belief that they were masterminded in Abu Dhabi.