KHARTOUM, June 16: Sudan’s powerful interior minister has resigned after a building he owned collapsed killing at least one person, an interior ministry official said on Thursday. “He (Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein) resigned yesterday because of the building which collapsed,” said Abu Obeida Abdelaziz, head of the interior ministry’s information office.

Abdelaziz said a justice ministry report concluded that while Mr Hussein was not personally responsible for the collapse in February, the interior ministry’s engineering consultation department bore some responsibility.

Abdel Rahim Hussein, a major-general in the armed forces, has been interior minister since 2000 and is a close ally of President Omar Hassan al Bashir.—Reuters