General Abdel Fattah al Burhan the army chief and leader of a 25 October coup is keen to keep the immunity from prosecution conferred on him as the country's de facto chief of state (AC Vol 62 No 22 General Al Burhan's power grab)...
Lt Gen Annan Hamid Omar: The new chief of police is from the same village Qandto as Sovereignty Council head Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan...
Having lost the support of the street and the main opposition groupings Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok faces some stark choices: appoint the ministers of his choice triggering a confrontation with coup leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan or accept the new status quo of total military control...
Hamdok and Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan head of the armed forces made a 14-point agreement to end the 25 October military coup and restore the status quo ante but many questions went unanswered (AC Vol 62 No 22 General Al Burhan's power grab)...
Western diplomats' support for the deal may also have been influenced by the prospect of junta leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan striking a deal with Moscow that leads to a Russian naval base in Port Sudan (AC Vol 62 No 18 Hedging the Eagle and the Bear)...
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Despite their close ties with the regimes in United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia and Egypt Sudan's ruling generals Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' have not been able to secure enough pledges of cash from the regional autocracies to ease their country's deepening economic crisis...
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Intervention efforts by the regional body the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) which is currently chaired by Sudan were derailed by General Abdel Fattah al Burhan's coup in Khartoum last month...
A week after General Abdel Fattah al Burhan's coup and bid to disband the transitional government military and civilian rivals are locked in negotiations in the face of mounting national and international opposition to the takeover...
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Vol 62 No 22 |
- NORTH AFRICA
General Abdel Fattah al Burhan's seizure of power in Sudan on 25 October backed not so discreetly by Egypt UAE and Saudi Arabia followed Sisi's route to power via an orchestrated economic crisis and coup...
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Confusion reigns at the heart of General Abdel Fattah al Burhan's junta a week after he seized power and ordered the arrest of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and several civilian ministers (AC Vol 62 No 22 General Al Burhan's power grab)...
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Army officers led by General Abdel Fattah al Burhan overthrew the transitional government on 25 October and put Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok under house arrest despite hundreds of thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets throughout Sudan five days earlier to protest against this eventuality...
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With his proclaimed dissolution of the transitional government in Khartoum and the arrest of the prime minister and other civilian leaders on 25 October the armed forces commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan is defying hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protestors as well as several regional and international organisations...
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