The demonstrations were so powerful that the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) have hardened their position and are calling on senior officers in the army to overthrow General Abdel Fattah el Burhan...

Then General Abdel Fattah el Burhan went to Al Fashqa and ordered an action which cleared Ethiopian forces out of the Brecht settlement a stronghold in the disputed region which was built in 1995...

Sovereign Council leader Lt Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Lt Gen Atta were previously considered among the most powerful figures in Beshir's National Congress Party regime...

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...

It was the first organised contact between the FFC and the military since General Abdel Fattah al Burhan seized power on 25 October prompting mass demonstrations and international sanctions...

Just before the outbreak of the war in Tigray on 3-4 November 2020 Sudan's General Abdel Fattah al Burhan agreed to Abiy's request to close the Sudan border to Tigrayan activity...

After all junta leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan was himself responsible for its fall (AC Vol 60 No 8 The revolution rumbles on)...

As a first step towards this goal the plan was for them to put forward names of a new civilian prime minister the role that Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan has been occupying de facto since he took power...

Hemeti's role in General Abdel Fattah al Burhan's October 2021 coup against his civilian prime minister – when the RSF helped crack down on demonstrations by the Resistance Committees – has also failed to earn him the backing of the military (AC Vol 62 No 22 General Al Burhan's power grab)...

Sudan's head of state General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and his deputy are courting rival powers to fight their corner in an undeclared battle for supremacy ahead of elections planned for next year (AC Vol 63 No 5 Schisms in the junta are widening)...

At the junta's core are the persisting tensions between head of state General Abdel Fattah al Burhan commander of the SAF and his deputy Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' commander of the RSF...

Sudan's junta also wants to make clear to Western diplomats that it has ended the civilian era and that the country is moving on with this new regime led by General Abdel Fattah al Burhan...