SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Burhan comes close to admitting Islamists’ involvement in failed coup

24/9/2021: Sudan Tribune - Burhan comes close to admitting Islamists’ involvement in failed coup

Sudan Tribune report that head of the armed forces Abdulfattah al-Burhan pointed to the involvement of civilians in the failed coup attempt, “but stopped short of admitting they were Islamists.”

Despite Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok allegations, al-Burhan  and other senior military officials previously dismissed the involvement of civilian Islamists in the coup attempt.

"The coup involved some civilians…we will disclose their political affiliation at the end of the investigation," al-Burhan said, adding that the army had intelligence but waited “to arrest [putschists] in the act so that the coup attempt will be easy to prove”.

While Hamdok and the leaders of the Forces for Freedom and Changes (FFC) accused al-Burhan of delaying sacking Islamists from the army, “which enables Islamist attempts to seize power,” al-Burhan says Islamists would not have the opportunity to do so if civilian forces stopped quarrelling.