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...

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...

Yet despite continuing violence and another coup last October there is no end in sight to the rivalry between the Rapid Support Forces of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' and the Sudan Armed Forces under General Abdel Fattah al Burhan nor an unequivocal resolution in favour of military rule as a whole...

Ever since Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan declared on television that the army and civilians would have separate responsibilities in running the country on 4 July, Sudanese have been trying to interpret this...

The demonstrations were so powerful that the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) have hardened their position and are calling on senior officers in the army to overthrow General Abdel Fattah el Burhan...

Then General Abdel Fattah el Burhan went to Al Fashqa and ordered an action which cleared Ethiopian forces out of the Brecht settlement a stronghold in the disputed region which was built in 1995...

Sovereign Council leader Lt Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Lt Gen Atta were previously considered among the most powerful figures in Beshir's National Congress Party regime...

THE MEN BACKING GENERAL BURHAN ◆ Major General Abdel Mahmoud Hammad: Briefly military governor of River Nile State under President Omer el Beshir in 2019 he was appointed executive director of Zadna International Investment by General Abdel Fattah el Burhan...