Burhan Vows to Retake 'Every Inch' of Sudan, Rejects Talks
The Facts
- Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan vowed Tuesday to press on with the military campaign until "every inch" of the country is retaken from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), rejecting negotiations with the paramilitary group.
- Burhan made the remarks at the opening of Al-Karama Secondary School in Village 5, in Northern State’s Merowe locality. He also pledged government support to improve essential local services and address the area’s broader development needs.
- Burhan’s remarks come after at least 10 civilians were killed in an RSF attack in West Kordofan, the Dar Hamar Emergency Committee said, while the International Organization for Migration reported that 5.1 million Sudanese returned home but 8.6 million remain displaced.
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The Spin
Pro-government narrative
Burhan is right to reject a truce imposed from abroad that could freeze the RSF in territory it currently controls and risk entrenching Sudan’s division. Peace terms written without Sudan have repeatedly failed, while denying its de facto leader a U.N. platform and treating the army and the force accused of atrocities in El Fasher as equals only deepens the imbalance of power. Real pressure should instead target foreign sponsors supplying and arming the RSF.
Government-critical narrative
Burhan’s latest rejection of an externally backed truce shows why rewarding a general who answers peace efforts with more fighting risks only further bloodshed and mass displacement. Withholding his visa was leverage, not a personal insult. A leader who seized power by coup and rejects even a short humanitarian pause cannot credibly claim to speak for a country being devastated by a war he continues to pursue at enormous human cost.
