Although as the commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Hemeti was a key ally of former President Omer Ahmed Hassan el Beshir during his final years in power he has never shared Beshir's Islamist leanings (AC Vol 60 No 8 In the belly of the security beast)...

The civilian-military administration in power since the 2019 overthrow of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had unlocked billions of dollars in loans and debt forgiveness ending its decades-long status as a pariah regime (AC Vol 62 No 15 Between money and the military)...

The arrangement followed civil-military negotiations after the overthrow of President Omer Ahmed Hassan el Beshir in April 2019 to chart a path to wide-ranging reform and credible elections...

Then demonstrators protected by sympathetic military officers massed outside military headquarters demanding that President Omer Ahmed Hassan el Beshir stand down...

Some ministers may have connections to the outlawed National Congress Party but they would not be conspicuous Islamists or close to ousted President Omer Ahmed Hassan el Beshir...

As head of Sudan's Sovereignty Council Burhan is protected from any probes into his roles in coordinating the Darfur genocide after conflict broke out in the region in 2003; ordering the dispersal of protestors that led to a massacre on 3 June 2019 after the ouster of previous ruler Omer Hassan el Beshir; and the killing of more than 40 protestors by security forces after this year's coup...

Since his university days he has been a well known member of the Sudanese Islamic Movement (SIM) that would later form the basis of Omer Hassan el Beshir's 1989-2019 regime...

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...