Army officers led by General Abdel Fattah al Burhan overthrew the transitional government on 25 October and put Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok under house arrest despite hundreds of thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets throughout Sudan five days earlier to protest against this eventuality...
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With his proclaimed dissolution of the transitional government in Khartoum and the arrest of the prime minister and other civilian leaders on 25 October the armed forces commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan is defying hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protestors as well as several regional and international organisations...
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The pro-military demonstrators called on General Abdel Fattah Burhan commander of the armed forces and current head of the joint civil-military Sovereignty Council to mount a coup against the civilians in the power-sharing government...
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They met with Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Burhan chairman of the Sovereignty Council Sudan's executive body and with Hamdok discussing a possible military partnership...
But Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Burhan chairman of the Sovereignty Council – which is military-dominated and above the cabinet in the hierarchy – insists the 'entire military economic capacity does not exceed $3 billion'...
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Regional alignments have changed radically since the ousting of Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and the National Congress Party regime in April 2019 and its replacement by a transitional government jointly led by General Abdel Fattah Burhan and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok...
Only two layers of the tripartite government agreed in 2019 are in place: the Sovereignty Council chaired by Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Burhan but on which the military and civilians share power; and the Council of Ministers on which civilians predominate except for the security portfolios of interior and defence...
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Vol 62 No 4 |
- ETHIOPIA
- SUDAN
Decoded Ethiopia's foreign ministry was arguing that the close relations between Sudan's military leader General Abdel Fattah Burhan and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi were driving Khartoum's handling of the border issue...
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Vol 62 No 2 |
- ETHIOPIA
- SUDAN
On 14 January General Abdel Fattah al Burhan head of the Sudanese Sovereign Council – the country's interim government – visited troops in the al Fashqa border area alongside the Chief of Staff of the Sudan Armed Forces Lieutenant General Mohammad Othman al Hussein and other senior military commanders...
Lt General Abdel Fattah Burhan head of the Sovereignty Council will remain closer to Egypt (AC Vol 61 No 24 War resets the region)...