2025-07-01
The Radar: The fighting in Sudan escalates while the government is preoccupied with ministerial quotas! By Professor Yacoub Ibrahim
The Sudanese Prime Minister, Dr. Kamel Idris, who was officially sworn in on Saturday, May 31, 2025, as the head of the Sudanese Council of Ministers, before the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, is preoccupied with intensive consultations to form his government; which he called the Government of Hope, trying to get through it with its provocations; as political forces allied with the Sudanese army submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister, demanding their participation in the political consultations before the anticipated announcement of the new government. Key parties in the Democratic Bloc alliance also objected to their exclusion from the consultations, before the announcement of Kamel Idris as Prime Minister. (Sudan Tribune, June 22, 2025).
The other major obstacle to the formation of the government is the parties to the Juba Peace Agreement, as the head of the Sudan Liberation Movement; the general supervisor of the Joint Force, Mani Arko Minawi, revealed in statements to Sudan Tribune about shuttle meetings with the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council; Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, discussed the fate of the partnership, and the general supervisor of the Joint Force and Governor of the Darfur region said: "We have not discussed the issue of quotas yet, and we thought we should first resolve the issue of partnership," and Minawi pointed out that the meeting ended with securing the Juba agreement, but he returned and said that the ball is now in their court, and Minawi defended their efforts to preserve the partnership in accordance with the Juba agreement, saying: "Discussing issues of power and its distribution as stipulated in the agreements is at the heart of the political work for which we came out and paid a heavy price," and he continued, "This is not a shameful matter."
Of course, these parties competing for power, shamelessly announce the sale of the blood and honor of the people of Sudan, in a public auction of ministerial appointments, and they do not care about the suffering of the people of Sudan from the scourge of this dirty war, which has spared neither trees nor stones, and the war is still raging, and has resulted in unprecedented humanitarian, economic and social crises. Here is the spokesperson for the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan, Mona Rishmawi, in a statement about the ongoing war, saying: "What is happening in Sudan is not just a humanitarian crisis, it is a crisis of humanity itself" (Monte Carlo, 06/18/2025). The head of this mission, Mohamed Chande Othman, said: "Civilians are still paying the biggest price," admitting that the conflict is becoming "more complex and brutal."
While the struggle for power is taking place in Port Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces continue their expansion in Darfur, where they reported in a statement on 06/14/2025, that they were able to "liberate the strategic Triangle area, which is located in the far northwest of El Fasher, and constitutes a pivotal meeting point between Sudan, Libya and Egypt, in a qualitative step," and the Rapid Support continues its siege of the city of El Fasher, which it has been targeting for a year, to announce after receiving it full control of Darfur, and this is what we expect, God forbid, if things continue as they are now, it was stated in the answer to a question issued by the eminent scholar Ata bin Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah on 05/21/2025: (The expectation is that the attacks on the city of El Fasher will intensify and that the army sectors that were on their way to support the city of El Fasher will recede, and that the Sovereignty Council will take time to repair this destruction in eastern Sudan, and it is unlikely that the Jeddah negotiations will start again before the Rapid Support Forces control El Fasher, or have weight in it, and it is important in Darfur, and then America creates a balance of power and control between the two Sudanese forces (the army and the Rapid Support), so that if the Jeddah negotiations resume, the Rapid Support will have taken off the cloak of defeat and stood confident in its strength and the stability of its control and has established a de facto government in Darfur, that is, created the appropriate conditions for maturing the division, and its becoming a fait accompli that must be accepted).
What is worth mentioning is that the Rapid Support had signed an agreement with the SPLM-N in Nairobi in April 2025, and established a political and military alliance under the name "Founding Sudan Alliance", which raised many questions about the strength of this alliance between the movement and the Rapid Support. Many actors within the movement view Hemedti with suspicion, and fear that he is seeking to extend his control over the Nuba Mountains region, the strategic depth of the SPLM-N - Al-Hilu faction. Analysts may be right, as if this alliance is an early preparation to move the battles there in the event that the Rapid Support fails to seize Darfur, or the loyalists in the army are active in restoring control over Darfur, in which case the Rapid Support may continue its opposition, and its military battles from the Nuba Mountains, or from other parts of Kordofan.
These battles have exhausted the people of Sudan, and destroyed large proportions of the country's infrastructure. The United Nations says that the Darfur region is suffering from a deep crisis, where 79% of its population needs humanitarian assistance and protection. Instead of the government seeking to end these seditions, disasters and woes, and declaring a ceasefire as soon as possible, in accordance with the Sharia rulings related to fighting between Muslims, instead of that, it turns a blind eye to resolving the battles, and is preoccupied with the conflict over the dilapidated seats of power, and does not even care about treating patients, nor providing security and stability, but has turned the country into a stage for the interventions of greedy countries and major monopoly companies to plunder the nation's wealth. Most of the people of Sudan have been displaced and have sought refuge in neighboring countries, after most of them lost everything they owned, so international and regional organizations are counting the poor and talking about hunger and disease and shedding crocodile tears, perhaps they will find an entry point for their masters to intervene in the management of Sudan's affairs. The Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported on 06/27/2025, that the Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant-General Burhan, had received a telephone call from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, in which he expressed his welcome to the appointment of Dr. Kamel Idris as Prime Minister... and (the Secretary-General of the United Nations called for the declaration of a humanitarian truce for a week in the locality of El Fasher in support of the efforts of the United Nations and to facilitate the arrival of relief to thousands of besieged citizens there, which was approved by the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, stressing the importance of implementing the Security Council resolutions issued in this regard).
It is very painful that the rulers of our country are fighting over power, and are making way for the organizations of disbelief to take care of our affairs, and interfere in our policies, but they welcome decisions that enable their influence in our country, and yearn to refer to what is called international legitimacy, while the nation yearns, in times of dispute and conflict, to the rulings of Islam that bring them out of darkness into the light of Islam. Is there anyone in the army who is sincere to God, supports the religion and establishes the law of the Lord of the Worlds?!
Written for the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
Yacoub Ibrahim (Abu Ibrahim) - Sudan Province
Source: Al-Radar
