Generals Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' had said they support a humanitarian ceasefire but have intensified the fighting over the past week (AC Vol 64 No 9 Regional states hold back for now)...
Despite multiple attempts to dampen the tensions after the SAF commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and RSF leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' failed to reach agreement on integrating their forces by the 29 March deadline preparations for a fight to the finish rumbled on (AC Vol 64 No 9 Mediators proliferate as fighting intensifies and more flee Khartoum)...
General Abdel Fattah al Burhan is relying on other military operators especially the successors to the Islamist Popular Defence Forces that had thrived under the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regimes of Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir until his ousting in April 2019...
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The feared internationalisation of the fight between the forces of Generals Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' is contingent on how long it lasts and its outcome in Khartoum...
All of them have called on the rival military leaders General Abdel Fattah al Burhan of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to pause the fighting that has claimed over 400 lives and wounded over 3 500 in the capital alone according to the UN Office for Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)...
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Professing its commitment to a ceasefire Egypt's government will be more determined than ever to ensure the victory of the SAF and General Abdel Fattah al Burhan after the killing of one of its senior diplomats in Khartoum by RSF fighters...
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The civilian Forces for Freedom and Change-Central Council (FFC-CC) and the two leaders of the military junta General Abdel Fattah al Burhan Commander of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' who heads the Rapid Support Forces signed the framework plan in December (AC Vol 64 No 2 History won't repeat itself)...
It's likely that General Abdel Fattah al Burhan Commander of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) is involved because officers from the army and Military Intelligence (MI) are running the recruitment...
Better relations between Sudan's leader Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed have sidelined Egypt in negotiations over the management of the dam...
On 29 January Sudan's military leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan went to Ndjamena to discuss growing insecurity on the Chad-Sudan border...
Hours after the ceremony hailing the framework agreement it became clear that again General Abdel Fattah el Burhan the junta leader and his deputy Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' interpreted the text differently...
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Two and a half months on from General Abdel Fattah el Burhan's announcement that he and his fellow military officers were withdrawing from the political dialogue and would leave civilian politicians free to form a new government the widespread scepticism that greeted it appears fully justified...
Another focus of tensions between Hemeti and junta leader General Abdel Fattah el Burhan is the border between Chad and West Darfur which has been a base for Chadian opposition groups...