Vol 63 No 5 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
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...
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Complicating matters is the mutual distrust trust between the junta leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and his deputy Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...
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Vol 63 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
In Sudan the AU moved swiftly to suspend the junta after Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan seized power last October but since then its attempts to mediate between the military and civilians have been firmly rebuffed by the generals...
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Over 40 retired officers including several former generals have written to military leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan warning that his position is weakening in the face of mass protests against the junta...
That was agreed in December 2020 but Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan is procrastinating for obvious geopolitical reasons...
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Pro-democracy activists led by the national network of Resistance Committees and the Sudan Professionals' Association (SPA) have rejected UN Envoy Volker Perthes's efforts to facilitate a political dialogue between civilians and General Abdel Fattah al Burhan's military regime...
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As Generals Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' try unsuccessfully to cow the revolutionaries on the street – at least another five protestors have been shot dead in the first week of the year – security conditions in the regions notably Darfur are deteriorating sharply...
HOW THE MILITARY PLANS TO HOLD POWER As national and international pressure mounts General Abdel Fattah al Burhan's junta will try to find a replacement prime minister after Abdalla Hamdok's exit...
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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