Just weeks earlier his rival SAF Commander Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan had been celebrating after driving Hemeti's forces from the war-shattered capital at terrible human and material cost...

That forces SAF leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan to tread carefully avoiding conflict with Riyadh which has promised to fund Khartoum's reconstruction...

Another such effort could provoke conflict with Moscow which officially supports Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan the leader of Hemeti's rivals the Sudan Armed Forces...

InvestigationOver the past year UN experts have been investigating sanctions-busting involving arms flows to both the RSF commanded by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) under Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan...

These experienced Chadian fighters are a great asset to the SAF under General Abdel Fattah al Burhan...

In Renk in Upper Nile State in early March opposition SPLM-In Opposition forces battled RSF units in an effort we hear to prevent the SPLM-IO meeting up with the Sudan Armed Forces of Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan to receive military supplies...

Weeks later the RSF returned to Nairobi signing a charter to establish a parallel Sudanese government prompting Sudan Armed Forces Commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan to impose a ban on all imports from Kenya (AC Vol 66 No 5 Hemeti struggles to launch in Nairobi again)...

On 15 April 2025 General Abdel Fattah al Burhan will commemorate two years of war against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from the presidential palace in Khartoum...

KHARTOUM'S SUITORS JOSTLE FOR PRIMACY Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) Commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan has to clarify his line on regional and international relations...

After expelling the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from Khartoum in late March the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan is now focusing on the militia's presence in Darfur and its principal supporters: Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno ‘Kaka' and United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahayan (MBZ) (Dispatches 24/3/24 Burhan's forces capture presidential palace tightening their grip on Khartoum)...

Asmara tends to align with Riyadh; both back General Abdel Fattah Burhan in Sudan's civil war...