Commander of the Sudan Armed Forces General Abdel Fattah al Burhan announced on Eid el Fitr (10 April in Sudan) that his aim was not to return to any civilian regime like the radical reforming one of 2019-2021 or the oppressive rule of Gen Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's National Islamic Front (then National Congress Party) from 1989 to 2019...
Like Egypt and Saudi Arabia the UAE kept lines open to President Omer Ahmed Hassan el Beshir in Sudan who headed the MB-affiliated National Congress Party...
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More problematically they met representatives of the National Congress Party (NCP) the ruling Islamist party in Sudan under President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...
Now it has turned to Iran a key ally for the Islamist National Congress Party regime under ex-President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir who was ousted in 2019...
The component parts of the SAF the multiple covertly-funded militias set up under ex-President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and the National Congress Party look set to launch an insurgency against authorities deemed to be under RSF control...
Two decades ago it strongly backed the resistance against the ethnic cleansing and genocidal campaign of Gen Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's Islamist regime in Khartoum that left over 300 000 dead...
Hemeti's posture as a representative of the periphery in Darfur ignores the reality that many in Darfur accuse both him and the SAF Commander Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan of running the genocidal campaigns in the region on behalf of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's Islamist regime two decades ago...
It aims to bring together a fair representation of the civic and political groups that oppose both the war and any return to a government run by the allies of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir who was toppled in 2019...
Also open to debate is whether Islamist groups or the remnants of former President Omer el Beshir's National Congress Party (NCP) which still commands some public support should be represented in any post-war talks...
The SAF has other allies such as the Islamist National Congress Party (NCP) and former Popular Defence Forces (PDF) elements trying to regain their influence since their heyday under President Omer Hassan el Beshir's regime...
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In response the FFC – which was at the heart of the transitional government formed after the ousting of President Omer el Beshir in 2019 following a wave of public protest – said in a statement that threats by both sides to form a government were 'an extremely dangerous issue that will result in the partition and division of the country' and could lead to a 'comprehensive civil war'...
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