19/3/2023: Monte Carro - Who is going to rule? The person who has the power or the person who has the domination

Monte Carro, a news website specialising in Sudanese military affairs, report that army chief Abdulfattah al-Burhan told a Gulf mediator that he may lose control of the army unless he integrates the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) into it.

The foiled military coup of 21 September 2021 was reportedly motivated by internal army tensions over the RSF’s growing power, with al-Burhan “aware of his diminishing popularity in the army amidst accusations that his weakness and hesitation caused the expansion of the RSF at the army’s expense,” despite using the RSF as a “scarecrow” to prevent army officers overthrowing him.

With the RSF “becoming like a political party” given its economic interests and domestic and foreign alliances, its commander Himedti allegedly seeks to ensure that integration occurs “according to his vision,” allegedly seeking to reap gains by prolonging the process “which cannot be achieved without his loyalists at the army’s helm”.