An informed source at the Sudanese embassy in Riyadh said that the head of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereign Council, Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, will arrive in Riyadh on Wednesday, on an official visit to the Kingdom that will last for one day.
The source, who asked not to be named, added in a statement to the German news agency that Al-Burhan will meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “to discuss many bilateral issues, the security of the Red Sea, and prospects for resolving the political crisis between the Sudanese parties.”
Al-Burhan is accompanied on the visit by an official delegation that includes the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Ali Al-Sadiq and Finance, Jibril Ibrahim, in addition to the Director of the General Intelligence Service, Ahmed Ibrahim.
The visit comes in light of a crisis in Sudan since last October.
The source expected that the Saudi side would stress the “importance of dialogue and understanding between the partners of the transitional period to overcome the challenges facing the political process, leading to national consensus that leads the country to stability and unity and directing efforts towards construction and development.”
The source explained that Al-Burhan will inform the Saudi crown prince of his support “for a dialogue between the Sudanese parties that leads to the formation of a government led by civilians and holding elections at the end of the transitional period.”
The source did not rule out that Al-Burhan asked Prince Mohammed to “increase Saudi financial support for the Sudanese economy, through the establishment of joint investment projects, especially in the agricultural and livestock fields.”
Sudan has witnessed protests since last October, in rejection of exceptional measures taken by Al-Burhan, the army chief, most notably the imposition of a state of emergency and the dissolution of the Sovereignty Councils and the Transitional Ministers.
Prior to Al-Burhan’s procedures, Sudan had been living since August 21, 2019, a transitional period that was scheduled to last 53 months, ending with holding elections in early 2024, during which power is shared by the army, civil forces and armed movements that signed a peace agreement with the government in 2020.
