For the second time in less than 24 hours, the head of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, is making violent criticism of the government of Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok in the wake of the conflict over investments and companies owned by the Sudanese army but outside the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance.
Despite Hamdok's assertion in his speech to the Sudanese - on the occasion of the anniversary of his oath - that the military investments will be dealt with with the agreement of all power structures, Al-Burhan responded to this talk with a blatant attack on Hamdok's government, stressing that the gap is wide between the ruling military and civilians.
When addressing the leaders of the armed forces yesterday, Al-Burhan said, "There are parties working to create a rupture and a hiatus between the armed forces and the components of the Sudanese people, and to suspend their economic failures on the companies and investments of the armed forces by spreading some lies about these companies and their seizure of the joints of the economy."
Today, Monday, al-Burhan continued his criticism of Hamdok's government while addressing officers in Wadi Sayyidna military region, "We have been following the persistent attempts by some to discredit the armed forces, demonize the rapid support and attempt sedition between them."
Al-Burhan emphasized that the revolution did not meet the people's aspirations and no actual change took place. Rather, the situation became worse, as he spoke of "organized campaigns seeking to dismantle the army and its institutions and economic companies to break up the country." Then he repeated, "The losers want to pin their failures on the military's institutions."
According to military sources who spoke to Al-Jazeera Net, Al-Burhan "feels very angry about the prime minister's statements, and then he deliberately made these sharp statements to prevent the spread of false information that he said affects the army as an institution."
The limits of the crisis,
and political analyst Abdullah Rizk considers Al-Burhan’s statements as an indirect response to Hamdok’s speech. Before the two speeches, the street was full of protests organized by some resistance committees, ”indicating that there are critical situations surrounding the relationship between the two components of the transitional authority, and between the authority and its political incubator, and between The last and resistance committees.
Rizk considers Hamdok's call to the Central Council of the Forces for Freedom and Change for an urgent meeting, hours before the arrival of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, as an attempt to get out of the crisis, especially as he “is also concerned with showing the United States’ support for the civilian authority in Sudan, an authority eroded by the expansion of the military component of the Sovereignty Council ".
As for the leader of the Popular Congress Party, Awad Babiker, he asserts that there is a "hidden battle between civilians and the ruling military, and that the prime minister's speech the day before yesterday reflected a great deal of that dissonance."
Babacar believes that Hamdok "initiated the battle and turned it into the open when he spoke of the imminent devolution of the military institutions to the Ministry of Finance, and touched a nerve with the military when he spoke about the willingness to cooperate with the International Criminal Court to bring the wanted persons before it, including President Omar Al-Bashir, who led the military establishment for years. His companions cannot agree to extradite him to be tried abroad. "
Babiker added, "The military component is now in a comfortable position compared to civilians who are compounded by street pressures, which were divided against Hamdok, and his popularity significantly diminished, which led him and his supporters to suspend the failures on the military."
He also ruled out the possibility of a military coup, noting that "the army currently has a good space for maneuver, especially as the political incubator of the government faces sharp divisions and disagreements, and then the proof and his ruling group seem the closest to moving and controlling the situation and even addressing all economic crises after the civilian component failed to solve them." .
For his part, journalist Mohamed Hamed Jumaa considers last Friday "part of the preparation for an internal amendment affecting the general structure of the transitional period," suggesting an arrangement to take advantage of Hamdok as a face representing civil change for the international community with the overthrow of some of the forces that have observations from outside, such as the Baath and the Communist. .
When asked about the possibility of a repeat of what happened in Egypt 7 years ago, Abdullah Rizk said, “The Egyptian model does not represent a solution to the crisis because history does not repeat itself. Nevertheless, the country, in addition to the pressure of the internal crisis, and the failure of the existing authority to address peace, security and livelihood issues, is being exposed. "To external pressures due to the surrounding conditions, the most important of which is the hot conflicts in Yemen and Libya, which attract regional parties that have their links and interests that bind them to Sudan. The desired solution often expresses the balance of interests that are simmering and simmering in Sudan and its surroundings."