Sudan’s Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman al-Burhan will be In Uganda to consult President Museveni tomorrow
By Correspondent
Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman al-Burhan the Sudanese general who is currently serving as Chairman of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan, the country’s collective transitional head of state, will be in Uganda tomorrow to consult President Yoweri Museveni.
The Drone Media has learnt that among the issues to be discussed is the isolation, which has been imposed on the military leaders, who overthrew President Omar al-Bashir, but failed to organize elections. Another issue to be tabled is the recognition; ever since they toppled Gen Bashir; they have never been recognized international, and it has cost them a lot economically.
Before assuming this role in August 2019, he was the de facto head of state of Sudan as Chairman of the Transitional Military Council after former Chairman Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf resigned and transferred control in April 2019.
Additionally, the recently signed Juba agreement allows Lt. General Al-Burhan to continue to lead the SC for another 20 months, rather than stepping down as planned in February 2021.
He was formerly the General Inspector of the Sudanese Armed Forces. Burhan’s record is considered to be cleaner than that of most of Sudan’s generals, and he met with protesters during the Sudanese Revolution to listen to their demands.
In May 2019, Burhan’s first international trip was to Egypt to meet Abdel Fattah El-Sisi . His second visit was to the United Arab Emirates.
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan was born in 1960 in the village of Kundato in northern Sudan, to a religious family. al-Burhan studied elementary and intermediate level in his village school, and later moved to Shendi to complete his education before joining the Sudanese Military College among the 31st batch.
Military career
After graduating from the Military Academy, al-Burhan worked in Khartoum, as part of the Sudanese Army, and participated in the fighting fronts in the Darfur war and in the Second Sudanese Civil War in South Sudan and other regions. He later traveled to Egypt and then to Jordan to receive training courses in his military field until in 2018 he was appointed commander of the ground forces of the army.
Al-Burhan held several positions throughout his career as he began as a soldier with the Border Guard Forces and later became Commander of this Force before becoming Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ground Forces Operations and then Chief of Staff of the Sudanese Army in February 2018 before he served as Inspector General of the Army for a period of time. By February 26, 2019, during the massive protests that swept the country and demanded the fall of Omar al-Bashir’s regime; Abdel al-Fattah al-Burhan was elevated to the Lieutenant General rank.