Some are former members of the National Congress Party (NCP) the Islamist ruling party under President Omer Hassan el Beshir overthrown in 2019...
Sure enough on 28 November a number of bitter critics of the army who had been released from detention were yanked back after only a few hours of freedom including: Muhammad Suleiman al Faki a member of the Sovereignty Council; Ibrahim al Sheikh (minister of industry); Wadj Saleh (De-Empowerment Committee which was nationalising assets handed to private interests under President Omer el Beshir); FFC spokesperson Gaafar Hassan; and Sudan Professionals' Association leading member Ismail al Taj...
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Both were founded by acolytes of ousted President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir who remains in detention but whose future treatment is another source of friction between the military and civilians...
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As in the run-up to the toppling of President Omer el Beshir in April 2019 the rank and file and the junior officers of the SAF strongly sympathise with the protestors and working people...
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Pro-democracy protestors marched across Khartoum on 30 October in the biggest show of strength since the toppling of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir in April 2019...
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Judging by the mass mobilisation against the putsch on the streets and near universal international condemnation this might prove to be a grave miscalculation by Gen Burhan his Islamist allies and supporters of former leader Omer Hassan el Beshir...
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Many were heading towards military headquarters site of the mass occupation which preceded the toppling of President Omer el Beshir's Islamist regime in April 2019...
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They also control the Empowerment Removal Committee which aims to purge state entities of loyalists to the Islamist regime of Omer el Beshir ousted in April 2019...
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In Sudan 'Deep State' refers almost exclusively to the network of Islamist security agents their operating structures and expansive financial networks set up under the National Congress Party regime under Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's leadership...
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Wagner Group provided operatives to the regime of Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir to train the military and police to suppress the demonstrations that eventually led to his ouster in April 2019...