Sudan After the Dialogue

Rashid Abdel Rahim
For eight years, Sudanese people have been consumed by an intense struggle over power in which every means has been employed, from political alliances to war.
Today, we stand on the threshold of a national dialogue aimed at establishing a stable government. This requires President Al-Burhan to recognise that he should remain at the head of a transitional authority that governs for the shortest possible period.
Keeping the transitional period brief is important so that the government understands that it has one mission and does not become distracted from it, whatever the circumstances.
President Al-Burhan is the person best placed to undertake this task. He has led the army to victory and driven the rebellion out of large areas, while military operations continue to clear the entire country.
Al-Burhan has also taken a step—which we hope will prove to be the right one—towards a national dialogue that will lay the foundations for a new system of government.
Party-based democracy can be achieved when the army withdraws from government and devotes itself to its core responsibility of safeguarding the country’s security.
The Sumoud group will be the discordant voice and the only faction standing outside the consensus. It believes that it has a greater right to govern and that it acquired this right through the December Revolution.
Demonstrations and marches have never, in themselves, constituted a basis for government. They may bring down an existing regime, thereby giving the people the opportunity to choose their government; they do not entitle some individuals to impose themselves on the country because they led the demonstrations and brought down the regime.
Revolutionaries do not seek rewards or prizes. If they do, they seek power rather than lead a revolution and change.
Khalid Omar Youssef (Silik) and his group never hesitate to reject any initiative directed towards establishing democracy. He claimed that Al-Burhan’s speech yesterday “came to confirm what is already self-evident: that the man and his group are determined to continue the war”.
Nor did he forget to play their favourite refrain — that the National Congress Party directs Al-Burhan and exercises control over him. Yesterday, he said:
“This speech was drafted within the corridors of the National Congress Party and is a summary of Ahmed Haroun’s paper issued in February 2025 under the title ‘The Future Agenda’.”
The announcement of the national dialogue came in the address delivered by the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces on the anniversary of our Armed Forces. This, in itself, confirms that the Sudanese nation is united and moving collectively towards building a homeland founded on noble values that bring people together.
Those who stand outside this national direction, the author argues, are merely seeking power either through foreign assistance or armed rebellion — and both, he concludes, are now living their final days.

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