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...
But they will not suffice if as many forecast Generals Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' escalate the war over the next month...
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Just over a year after the civil war began between the Sudan Armed Forces of General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo aka 'Hemeti' the fighting has intensified around El Fasher the capital of North Darfur region (AC Vol 64 No 25 Preparing for an all-out fight in El Fasher)...
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SAF Commander Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan made the most of it marching through the city flanked by senior officers...
The widely publicised refusal by SAF Commander Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan on Iran's desire for naval facilities was useful to the SAF to 'prove' to the United States that it was still willing to talk...
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But the process was derailed after Sudan Armed Forces leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan accused IGAD and Kenyan President William Ruto who had been lined up to lead the Quartet of bias...
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Vol 65 No 4 |
- SUDAN
- MIGRATION
Since the civil war between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) led by General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group commanded by Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' more than 9 million people are reported to have been driven from their homes in Sudan; 1...
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Rather that the conflict looks set to drag on with neither General Abdel Fattah al Burhan nor Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' able to impose their will on the other...
Then SAF Commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan expelled all of UAE's diplomats from Sudan which prompted retaliation from Abu Dhabi (AC Vol 64 No 25 Mahamat Kaka co-opts Succès in pre-election campaign)...
FRAGMENTATIONS AND FAILURES Faced with another push eastwards by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) the collapse or perhaps terminal fragmentation of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) under General Abdel Fattah al Burhan could dominate the next phase of the conflict...
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Vol 65 No 3 |
- EAST AFRICA
Sudan Armed Forces leader Abdel Fattah al Burhan had protested IGAD's decision to invite Rapid Support Forces commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' to the summit in Uganda and refused to participate...
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Mahamat Kaka's junta and his allied in the UAE have been accused by General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF)-backed regime of fuelling the war in Sudan by supplying arms to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the command of Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...
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Last week's visits to Ethiopia and Uganda were the first public trips abroad by Rapid Support Forces Commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' since the start of the civil war with Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan's Sudan Armed Forces in April...
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