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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An investigation into the June 2019 massacre of over a hundred protestors – who were calling for a civilian democracy after President Omer el Beshir's ousting – could pin the blame on Hemeti's RSF (AC Vol 60 No 12 Freedom under fire)...