Abdel Fattah al-Burhan - The African Mirror

Apr

2024

By YAZAN KALACH, KHALID ABDELAZIZ and EL TAYEB SIDDIG

Sudan’s uprooted millions pay price for year-long war

AFTER fleeing from the war in Sudan to Egypt, Mohamed Ismail says his ambitions are limited to putting food in the mouths of his five children from a meagre monthly salary of about $100 earned at a paper factory in Giza. One seven-year-old son sleeps in his arms because of the trauma of hearing explosions before they fled from the outskirts of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in January. A year of war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has driven more than 8.5 million people from their homes, creating the world's largest displacement crisis and uprooting families multiple…

Sep

2023

By KHALID ABDELAZIZ

Sudan’s rival military leaders give competing addresses to U.N.

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THE heads of Sudan's rival military factions gave competing addresses to the United Nations, one from the podium at U.N. headquarters in New York and the other in a rare video recording from an undisclosed location. Army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, speaking at the United Nations following a string of foreign trips, called on the international community to designate the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as a terrorist organization and to counter its sponsors outside Sudan's borders. In a video message, RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, said that his forces were fully prepared for a ceasefire and…

Apr

2023

By The African Mirror

How Sudan’s military factions set path to war as mediation stalled

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KHALID ABDELAZIZ, NAFISA ELTAHIR and AIDAN LEWIS ALARMED that movements of rival military factions in Sudan could bring bloodshed, a group of mediators pushed for last-ditch talks between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo two weeks ago. But neither of Sudan's two most powerful men showed up to the meeting, convened at presidential offices in central Khartoum at 10 a.m. on April 15, three of the Sudanese mediators said, in details revealed for the first time here. Instead, fighting was breaking out across the country. At about 8.30 a.m. shooting started at the Soba military camp…

Jul

2022

By The African Mirror

Sudan’s opposition guarded on army pledge to leave talks to civilians

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KHALID ABDELAZIZ SUDANESE political parties sidelined by a coup last October gave a guarded response to the army's pledge to step aside from a dialogue initiative and let civilian groups hold talks to form a government. The Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition said a speech on Monday by army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan failed to spell out how the military would withdraw from politics, as demanded by the civilian opposition. Burhan's decisions "are a clear manoeuvre and tactical retreat that appear to accept the principle of the army returning to the barracks, while emptying this principle of any…

Apr

2022

By The African Mirror

Sudan threatens to expel UN rep

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SUDAN'S military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has threatened to expel the United Nations' special representative, accusing him of overstepping his mandate. "We heard his slander the other day, lying, blatantly lying," Burhan said in a speech at a military graduation on Friday. "If you overstep your mandate, we will put you out of Sudan." The comments come days after U.N. representative Volker Perthes gave an update to the Security Council on efforts in Sudan, where he commented on the country's economic turmoil, violence against protesters and priorities for a transition to elections. Perthes' mission has involved holding a series…