Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the Glossary
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman al-Burhan (ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Burhān ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Burhān; born 1961) is a Sudanese army general who is the de facto ruler of Sudan.[1]
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57 relations: Abdalla Hamdok, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf, Al Jazeera English, Anadolu Agency, Ankara, Arab Spring, Attempted assassination of Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, BBC News, Business Insider, CNN, General officer, Hemedti, Human Rights Watch, Israel, Israel–Hamas war, Iyad el-Baghdadi, Janjaweed, Juba Peace Agreement, Jubayt, Khartoum massacre, Libya, List of heads of state of Sudan, Malik Agar, Military junta, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Mohammed bin Salman, Mudiriyah, Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael, Next Sudanese general election, Omar al-Bashir, Omdurman, Osman Hussein (politician), Port Sudan, Rapid Support Forces, Republic of Sudan (1956–1969), River Nile State, Russia, Russia under Vladimir Putin, Saudi Arabia, Second Sudanese Civil War, Sergey Lavrov, Shendi, Sudan, Sudanese Armed Forces, Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese Military Academy, Sudanese revolution, Sufism, Transitional Military Council (2019), ... Expand index (7 more) »
- Members of the Transitional Sovereignty Council
- People from River Nile State
- People of the Sudanese civil war (2023–present)
- Presidents of Sudan
- Sudanese Military College alumni
- Sudanese lieutenant generals
Abdalla Hamdok
Abdalla Hamdok Al-Kinani (also transliterated Abdallah, Hamdouk, AlKinani; عبدالله حمدوك الكناني; born 1 January 1956) is a Sudanese public administrator who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Sudan from 2019 to October 2021, and again from November 2021 to 2 January 2022.
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Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Abd el-Fattah el-Sisi (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has been serving as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi are leaders who took power by coup.
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Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf (born; أحمد عوض بن عوف) is a Sudanese politician and Sudanese Army General who served as the de facto head of state for one day from 11 April 2019 to 12 April 2019 after taking part in the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf are presidents of Sudan, Sudanese Military College alumni and Sudanese lieutenant generals.
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Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English (AJE; lit) is a 24-hour English-language news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is partially funded by the government of Qatar.
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Anadolu Agency
Anadolu Agency (Anadolu Ajansı,; abbreviated AA) is a state-run news agency headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.
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Ankara
Ankara, historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul, but first by the urban area (4,130 km2).
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Arab Spring
The Arab Spring (ar-rabīʻ al-ʻarabī) or the First Arab Spring (to distinguish from the Second Arab Spring) was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s.
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Attempted assassination of Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
On July 30, 2024, the de facto ruler of Sudan and concurrent chairman of its Transitional Sovereignty Council and head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan was targeted in an assassination attempt using drones at a military graduation ceremony in Jubayt, Red Sea State in eastern Sudan.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
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Business Insider
Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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General officer
A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry.
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Hemedti
Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (translit, born 1974 or 1975), generally referred to mononymously as Hemedti (translit), Hemetti, Hemeti, or Hemitte ("little Mohamed"), is a Janjaweed leader from the Rizeigat tribe in Darfur, who was the Deputy head of the Transitional Military Council (TMC) following the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Hemedti are Members of the Transitional Sovereignty Council and people of the Sudanese civil war (2023–present).
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Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
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Israel–Hamas war
An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023.
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Iyad el-Baghdadi
Iyad el-Baghdadi (إياد البغدادي) (born June 17, 1977) is a writer, entrepreneur, and human rights activist who attained international prominence during the Arab Spring.
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Janjaweed
The Janjaweed (Janjawīd; also transliterated Janjawid) are an Arab nomad militia group from the Sahel region that operates in Sudan, particularly in Darfur, and eastern Chad.
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Juba Peace Agreement
Signed on October 3, 2020, the Juba Peace Agreement (also called the Juba Agreement) is a landmark concord between Sudan's transitional government and a handful of the country's rebel groups.
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Jubayt
Jubayt or Gebeit (جبيت) is a small town in eastern Sudan.
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Khartoum massacre
The Khartoum massacre occurred on 3 June 2019, when the armed forces of the Sudanese Transitional Military Council, headed by the Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah al Burhan of the Sudan Armed Forces and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the immediate successor organisation to the Janjaweed militia, used heavy gunfire and tear gas to disperse a sit-in by protestors in Khartoum, killing over 100 people, with difficulties in estimating the actual numbers.
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Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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List of heads of state of Sudan
This article lists the heads of state of Sudan since the country's independence in 1956. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and list of heads of state of Sudan are presidents of Sudan.
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Malik Agar
Malik Agar (translit; born Nganyofa Agar Eyre Nganyofa) is a Sudanese politician and former insurgent leader who was active in the insurgency in Blue Nile state. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Malik Agar are Members of the Transitional Sovereignty Council and people of the Sudanese civil war (2023–present).
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Military junta
A military junta is a government led by a committee of military leaders.
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Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (born 11 March 1961), popularly known by his initials as MBZ or MbZ, is an Emirati royal and politician who currently serves as the third president of the United Arab Emirates and the ruler of Abu Dhabi.
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Mohammed bin Salman
Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (translit; born 31 August 1985), popularly known by his initials as MBS or MbS, is the heir apparent to the Saudi Arabian throne.
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Mudiriyah
Mudiriyah (plural Mudiriyat), meaning "directorate" (from مدير mudir, meaning "director"), is an administrative subdivision also known in English as mudirate,Nachtigal, Gustav (1971) Sahara and Sudan: Wadai and Darfur (Volume 4 of Sahara and Sudan) Hurst, London,, and often translated as "province".
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Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael
The Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael (Nederlands Instituut voor Internationale Betrekkingen Clingendael) or Clingendael Institute (Instituut Clingendael) is a Dutch think tank and academy on international relations.
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Next Sudanese general election
Several Sudanese election plans followed the Sudanese Revolution of 2019, starting with a plan to hold elections in July 2023 under the 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration.
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Omar al-Bashir
Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (born 1 January 1944) is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as Sudan's head of state under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Omar al-Bashir are Genocide perpetrators, leaders who took power by coup, people from River Nile State, presidents of Sudan and Sudanese Military College alumni.
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Omdurman
Omdurmán (Umm Durmān) is a major city in Sudan.
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Osman Hussein (politician)
Osman Hussein (born 1951) is a Sudanese politician who has served as acting prime minister of Sudan since 19 January 2022, following the resignation of Abdalla Hamdok on 2 January 2022.
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Port Sudan
Port Sudan (Būr Sūdān, Beja: Bar'uut) is a city and port on the Red Sea in eastern Sudan, and the capital of Red Sea State.
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Rapid Support Forces
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF; Quwwāt ad-daʿm as-sarīʿ) is a paramilitary force formerly operated by the Government of Sudan.
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Republic of Sudan (1956–1969)
The Republic of the Sudan was established as an independent sovereign state upon the termination of the condominium of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, over which sovereignty had been vested jointly in Egypt and the United Kingdom.
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River Nile State
River Nile State (Nahr an Nīl) is one of the 18 wilayat or states of Sudan.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
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Russia under Vladimir Putin
Since 1999, Vladimir Putin has continuously served as either President (Acting President from 1999 to 2000; 2000–2004, 2004–2008, 2012–2018, 2018–2024 and 2024 to present) or Prime Minister of Russia (three months in 1999, full term 2008–2012).
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.
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Second Sudanese Civil War
The Second Sudanese Civil War was a conflict from 1983 to 2005 between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army.
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Sergey Lavrov
Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (Сергей Викторович Лавров; born 21 March 1950) is a Russian diplomat who has served as the foreign minister of Russia since 2004.
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Shendi
Shendi or Shandi (شندي) is a small city in northern Sudan, situated on the southeastern bank of the Nile River 150 km northeast of Khartoum.
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Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
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Sudanese Armed Forces
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF; Al-Quwwat al-Musallaha as-Sudaniyah) are the military forces of the Republic of the Sudan.
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Sudanese civil war (2023–present)
A civil war between two rival factions of the military government of Sudan, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the Janjaweed leader Hemedti, began during Ramadan on 15 April 2023.
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Sudanese Military Academy
Sudanese Military Academy is one of the military colleges in Sudan and the first military college established in Africa. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Sudanese Military Academy are Sudanese Military College alumni.
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Sudanese revolution
The Sudanese Revolution was a major shift of political power in Sudan that started with street protests throughout Sudan on 19 December 2018 and continued with sustained civil disobedience for about eight months, during which the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état deposed President Omar al-Bashir on 11 April after thirty years in power, 3 June Khartoum massacre took place under the leadership of the Transitional Military Council (TMC) that replaced al-Bashir, and in July and August 2019 the TMC and the Forces of Freedom and Change alliance (FFC) signed a Political Agreement and a Draft Constitutional Declaration legally defining a planned 39-month phase of transitional state institutions and procedures to return Sudan to a civilian democracy.
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Sufism
Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism and asceticism.
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Transitional Military Council (2019)
The Transitional Military Council (TMC) was the military junta governing Sudan that was established on 11 April 2019, after the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état that took place during the Sudanese Revolution, and was formally headed by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Inspector of the Armed Forces, after Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf resigned as leader one day following the coup.
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Transitional Sovereignty Council
The Transitional Sovereignty Council (translit) is the collective head of state of Sudan, formed on 20 August 2019, by the August 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Transitional Sovereignty Council are Members of the Transitional Sovereignty Council.
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Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
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University of Khartoum
The University of Khartoum (U of K) (جامعة الخرطوم) is a public university located in Khartoum, Sudan.
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Wagner Group
The Wagner Group (Gruppa Vagnera), officially known as PMC Wagner, is a Russian private military company (PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir Putin.
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War in Darfur
The War in Darfur, also nicknamed the Land Cruiser War, was a major armed conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan that began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups began fighting against the government of Sudan, which they accused of oppressing Darfur's non-Arab population.
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2021 Sudanese coup d'état
On 25 October 2021, the Sudanese military, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, took control of the Government of Sudan in a military coup.
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See also
Members of the Transitional Sovereignty Council
- Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
- Aisha Musa el-Said
- Hemedti
- Malik Agar
- Mohamed al-Faki
- Raja Nicola
- Siddiq Tawer
- Transitional Sovereignty Council
People from River Nile State
- Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
- Adil Abdel Aati
- Ahmed Mohamed El Hassan
- Ahmed Shibrain
- Ali Ahmed Karti
- El Hadi Ahmed El Sheikh
- El-Shafie Ahmed el-Sheikh
- Mandour El Mahdi
- Moaiad Abdeen
- Mohamed Abdel Fatah (footballer)
- Muddathir Abdel-Rahim
- Omar al-Bashir
- Tim Thorn
People of the Sudanese civil war (2023–present)
- Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
- Abdel Rahman Jumma
- Abdelaziz al-Hilu
- Abdelrahim Dagalo
- Abdul Wahid al-Nur
- Gibril Ibrahim
- Hemedti
- Ibrahim Jaber
- Malik Agar
- Minni Minnawi
- Mustafa Tambour
- Shams al-Din Kabbashi
- Yasser al-Atta
Presidents of Sudan
- 'Abd al-Latif Pasha
- Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
- Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab
- Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf
- Ahmed al-Mirghani
- Gaafar Nimeiry
- Ibrahim Abboud
- Ismail al-Azhari
- List of heads of state of Sudan
- Omar al-Bashir
- Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa
- Sudanese Sovereignty Council (1955–1958)
- Sudanese Sovereignty Council (1964–1965)
- Sudanese Sovereignty Council (1965–1969)
Sudanese Military College alumni
- Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
- Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab
- Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf
- Bakri Hassan Saleh
- Farouk Osman Hamadallah
- Gaafar Nimeiry
- Hashem al Atta
- Ibrahim Abboud
- Isaac Lumago
- Khalid Hassan Abbas
- Mohamed al-Baghir Ahmed
- Omar al-Bashir
- Shams al-Din Kabbashi
- Sudanese Military Academy
- Yasser al-Atta
- Zubair Mohamed Salih
Sudanese lieutenant generals
- Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
- Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein
- Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf
- Bakri Hassan Saleh
- Jamal Aldin Omar
- Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi
- Mustafa Osman Obeid Salim
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Fattah_al-Burhan
Also known as Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman al-Burhan, Abdel Fattah Burhan, Abdul Fattah al-Burhan.
, Transitional Sovereignty Council, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, University of Khartoum, Wagner Group, War in Darfur, 2021 Sudanese coup d'état.