Ahmed Haroun's move to North Kordofan, where he will be acting governor, comes as part of changes which establish a new state of West Kordofan, presidential press secretary Emad Sayed Ahmed said in a statement.
Haroun was elected governor of South Kordofan in a May 2011 election disputed by his opponent from the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N).
Khartoum tried to disarm the Movement's military wing, leading to war the following month.
Fighting then spread to Blue Nile state in September 2011.
Later that year the ethnic minority SPLM-N joined rebels from Sudan's far-west Darfur region to form the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) to topple the 24-year Islamist regime of President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to
ArabizeDarfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
The SRF in April this year staged its first joint operation, sweeping through a previously peaceful part of North Kordofan as part of coordinated attacks in the region.
Analysts said the rebel strike humiliated the authorities, who took a month to retake one of the seized areas, Abu Kershola in the far-north of South Kordofan.
Haroun is sought by The Hague-based
International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
on 22 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Darfur several years ago.