There is little sign that the authors of the Quad plan have learned much from the sabotaged political transition after revolutionary committees across the country pressured the military to force out President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir in April 2019...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Abu Dhabi equates the SAF with the ousted National Congress Party/National Islamic Front (NCP/NIF) regime led by Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir  who was toppled in April 2019...
 This marked a break with the policies of ousted President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir  who had deliberately created and financed several semi-autonomous militias – including Hemeti's RSF  formerly the Janjaweed in Darfur...
 Gosh – former Director General of the National Intelligence and Security Service under President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir – presided over the meeting...
	 
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	     After dissolving the cabinet on 1 June  Idriss has been trying to balance interest groups in the SAF  the allied militias and the former ruling NCP/National Islamic Front (NIF) under ousted President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir (AC Vol 60 No 9  A battle against the clock)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     In January 2018  Turkey struck a deal with then President Omer el Beshir to develop Suakin Island  but no work has started...
	 
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	     Gen Salah Gosh  former national security advisor to President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir  fled to Egypt during the 2019 uprising but has since regained influence in Khartoum on its Chad strategy...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The most important are connected to the Islamist command structures established under the National Islamic Front (NIF)/National Congress Party (NCP) regimes led by former President Omer Ahmed Hassan el Beshir...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Divisions over strategy and how to end the war cut across the sundry Islamist groupings in the SAF-affiliated militias and among those Islamists loyal to the National Congress Party of deposed President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir  who is still ostensibly detained...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The AU's efforts were undermined by its close ties to the Sudanese army and diplomats fron the era of ousted President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir  most of whom were members of the ruling National Congress Party or other Islamist factions...
 It hasn't trusted Gen Burhan since he ordered the arrest of President Omer Ahmed Hassan el Beshir in April 2019...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The shift in the RSF's tactics to target West Kordofan was provoked by Burhan's meeting with tribal leaders in the province led by Ahmed Saleh Saloh  a local leader of ex-President Omer Hassan el Beshir's Islamist ruling party  the National Congress Party (NCP)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Until early in the year  President Salva Kiir Mayardit was leaning towards Burhan  with whom he had worked when President Omer Hassan el Beshir was in power in Khartoum...