Al Burhan and the Foreign Minister of Djibouti discuss the possible reintegration of Sudan into the IGAD

MADRID 15 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The leader of the Sudanese Army and president of the Sovereign Transitional Council, Abdel Fattá al Burhan, met this Monday with the Foreign Minister of Djibouti, Mahmoud Ali Yusuf, to talk about the possible reintegration of Sudan into the Intergovernmental Authority on Development ( IGAD) after suspending its membership in January after criticizing the organization’s mediation in the Sudanese conflict.

Al Burhan and Yusuf have had a “long discussion” in Port Sudan regarding the “errors and negative positions” of the IGAD, currently led by the president of Djibouti, Ismail Omar Guelleh, according to a statement from the Sovereign Transitional Council collected by the Sudan Tribune news portal.

In this sense, the Sudanese authorities have highlighted the need to keep Djiboutian-Sudanese relations separate from the IGAD until it “corrects its position and recognizes the mistakes it has made with Sudan.”

The meeting took place at the request of the president of Djibouti, who has shown his willingness to overcome the differences between both parties. Sudan announced its break with IGAD after it invited the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, alias ‘Hemedti’, to a summit that was to be held in Uganda without prior consultation with Khartoum.

Sudan is mired in a civil war caused by differences over the integration of the RSF within the Armed Forces, a key part of an agreement signed in December 2022 to form a new civilian government and reactivate the transition opened after the 2019 overthrow of Omar Hasan al Bashir, damaged by the October 2021 coup, in which the then transition minister, Abdullah Hamdok, was overthrown.