Sudan's head of state General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and his deputy are courting rival powers to fight their corner in an undeclared battle for supremacy ahead of elections planned for next year (AC Vol 63 No 5 Schisms in the junta are widening)...
At the junta's core are the persisting tensions between head of state General Abdel Fattah al Burhan commander of the SAF and his deputy Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' commander of the RSF...
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Vol 63 No 6 |
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President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's government in Egypt appears the most vulnerable in the first wave of economic shocks closely followed by its ally Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan's junta in Sudan (AC Vol 63 No 5 Alliances come under heavy fire How Putin revived Moscow's reach & Moscow invasion strains bilateral ties)...
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Sudan's junta also wants to make clear to Western diplomats that it has ended the civilian era and that the country is moving on with this new regime led by General Abdel Fattah al Burhan...
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Complicating matters is the mutual distrust trust between the junta leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and his deputy Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...
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In Sudan the AU moved swiftly to suspend the junta after Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan seized power last October but since then its attempts to mediate between the military and civilians have been firmly rebuffed by the generals...
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Over 40 retired officers including several former generals have written to military leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan warning that his position is weakening in the face of mass protests against the junta...
That was agreed in December 2020 but Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan is procrastinating for obvious geopolitical reasons...
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Pro-democracy activists led by the national network of Resistance Committees and the Sudan Professionals' Association (SPA) have rejected UN Envoy Volker Perthes's efforts to facilitate a political dialogue between civilians and General Abdel Fattah al Burhan's military regime...
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As Generals Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' try unsuccessfully to cow the revolutionaries on the street – at least another five protestors have been shot dead in the first week of the year – security conditions in the regions notably Darfur are deteriorating sharply...
HOW THE MILITARY PLANS TO HOLD POWER As national and international pressure mounts General Abdel Fattah al Burhan's junta will try to find a replacement prime minister after Abdalla Hamdok's exit...