Sudan’s Burhan holds talks with Museveni as battles rage in Khartoum
The Republic of Sudan’s de facto leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan held talks with President Yoweri Museveni on his latest diplomatic foray abroad as battles continue to rage in Khartoum at State House Entebbe on Saturday 16th September 2023.
The Sudanese general was pictured meeting with Museveni at State House in the Ugandan Entebbe on what was described as a one-day working visit.
President Museveni posted on twitter confirming that the meeting focused majorly on “bilateral and regional issues.”
“This morning at State House Entebbe, the Chairman of the Transitional Sovereign Council of the Republic of Sudan, Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and I, met and deliberated on bilateral and regional matters,” President Museveni said in a brief post via his official Twitter account.
Sudan has been at war since April when fighting erupted between the regular army led by Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces commanded by his deputy-turned-rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
Clashes around Khartoum’s military headquarters — where Burhan had been holed up until last month — had seen a brief two-week respite before flaring again, with the RSF showering it with artillery fire, residents said on Saturday 16th sept 2023
Eyewitnesses heard clashes in central Khartoum, with one resident saying the RSF “is firing heavy artillery” at army headquarters.
From his new base in the Red Sea coastal city of Port Sudan, Burhan has since late August made six trips abroad in what analysts say is a diplomatic push to burnish his credentials in the event of negotiations to end the conflict.
Mr. Burhan has been Sudan’s de facto leader since the ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir in 2019, when he was appointed head of the Sovereign Council of military and civilian figures tasked with steering the transition to a fully-fledged democracy.
