They came to power as part of an umbrella of different groups that opposed Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir but few had any administrative expertise...
For months Gen Burhan allowed officers who had been associated with militias set up under President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's regime to rebuild them across the country...
General Abdel Fattah al Burhan is relying on other military operators especially the successors to the Islamist Popular Defence Forces that had thrived under the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regimes of Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir until his ousting in April 2019...
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The growing presence of ousted President Omer Ahmed Hassan el Beshir's supporters and sundry Islamists around the SAF leadership may cause concerns but Abu Dhabi may share Egypt's view that its ally Burhan has enough control in the military to rein in those figures seen as most dangerous...
A call for a fatwa and a threat by a supporter of ousted President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir to kill the UN envoy Volker Perthes further complicates the stalled negotiations on a return to civil rule and free elections...
This replays some of the strategy used by ousted President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir with the Sudan Shield Forces...
Burhan has promoted Musa Hilal who used to head the Janjaweed 20 years ago before he was replaced with his then number two Hemeti by ex-President Omer Hassan el Beshir (AC Vol 63 No 19 Junta's double-talk on transition)...
That would scupper plans by civilian politicians to probe grand corruption under Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's regime let alone hold military officers to account for multiple atrocities and rights abuses across the country...
Vol 63 No 17 |
- HORN OF AFRICA
In Sudan Qatar had been close to President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's regime since its earliest days in 1989 but when it was overthrown in 2019 after a civilian uprising the anti-military forces were able to prevent Doha coming to the aid of the new military government...
To many, Burhan's initiative is a reflection of the political success of the mass demonstrations on 30 June condemning both last year's putsch by Gen Burhan and the coup led by General Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and the National Islamic Front in 1989 which ended a three-year interregnum of constitutional government under El Sadig el Mahdi...
The 33rd anniversary of the coup that brought Omer Hassan el Beshir to power on 30 June 1989 was always going to be a test for both the opposition and the ruling military...
He was a strong critic of ex-President Omer el Beshir's laissez-faire attitude towards the enclave...
The dismantling committee was set up in November 2019 with the task of recovering assets obtained through the corrupt political networks of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir – the Islamist leader of Sudan from his 1989 coup until his overthrow in April 2019...
THE MEN BACKING GENERAL BURHAN ◆ Major General Abdel Mahmoud Hammad: Briefly military governor of River Nile State under President Omer el Beshir in 2019 he was appointed executive director of Zadna International Investment by General Abdel Fattah el Burhan...