Burhan's ousting of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his foreign minister Mariam Sadiq al Mahdi who chaired IGAD's council of ministers froze the organisation's initiatives on Ethiopia...

Burhan takes full advantage of his primacy in the council in trying to frame foreign policy such as on the Trump-era 'Abraham agreement' with Israel and elbow aside Foreign Affairs minister Mariam Sadiq al Mahdi...

Sudanese Foreign Minister Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi told her Moscow counterpart Sergei Lavrov in July that her country's yet-to-be-formed parliament would have to consider plans for Russia to build a naval base in Port Sudan before the government could give final approval...

Irrigation Minister Yasser Abbas said that Sudan will sue Ethiopia for filling the GERD reservoir and Foreign Minister Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi warned that Sudan could reconsider Ethiopia's right of sovereignty over the Benishangul-Gumuz region home of the dam...