Abdul Fatah al-Burhan

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Role	Chief of state: Sovereign Council Chair and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces General Abd-al-Fattah al-BURHAN Abd-al-Rahman (since 11 November 2021)
Country	Sudan
Office
Position	Chairman of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan
Personal details
Born	11 July 1960
Birthplace	Qandato
Education	المقاومة الشعبية السودانية
Occupation	military personnel, civil servant
This archive
Archived items	55
As of	2026-08-25

Abdul Fatah al-Burhan as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

Situation as of 2026-08-25

Most recent archived item: Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo - reported by Africanews

Most recent archived item: Africanews

This page lists 12 archived headlines published between 2026-03-01 and 2026-08-25. It reflects what these feeds reported in that window, not everything that happened.

Biography

Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

Biography

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman al-Burhan (born 11 July, 1960) is a Sudanese military officer who has been the leader of Sudan since 2019. Following the Sudanese Revolution in April 2019, he was handed control of the military junta, the Transitional Military Council, a day after it was formed, due to protesters' dissatisfaction with the establishment ties of initial leader Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf. He served as chairman of the TMC until a draft constitutional declaration signed with civilians went into effect on 17 August and a collective head of state Transitional Sovereignty Council was formed on 21 August, also to be initially headed by al-Burhan. The 2020 Juba Agreement allowed al-Burhan to continue to lead the Sovereignty Council for another 20 months, rather than stepping down as planned in February 2021. Al-Burhan seized power in a coup d'état in October 2021, dissolved the Sovereignty Council, and reconstituted it the following month with new membership, keeping himself as chairman. He was formerly the General Inspector of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). He is leading the SAF against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the ongoing Sudanese civil war. Al-Burhan survived an assassination attempt in July 2024. [1]

Early Life

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan was born in 1960 in the village of Gandatu in northern Sudan, to a Ja'ali family. Al-Burhan studied elementary and intermediate level in his village school, and later moved to Shendi to complete his education before joining the Sudanese Military College. [2]

Reporting

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Other archived reporting

[3] 2026-08-25 - Africanews: Egypt: Sufi muslims celebrate Mawlid al-Nabawi in Cairo
[4] 2026-08-25 - Middle East Eye: Ahmad al-Sharaa hails Syria's removal from US 'terrorism list'
[5] 2026-08-25 - IRNA, Iranian state: Hamas says destruction of UNRWA building in al-Quds is war crime
[6] 2026-08-25 (ingested; no publication date recorded) - Al-Monitor: The Syrian Democratic Forces, tip of the spear in anti-jihadist fight
[7] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
[8] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen during prayer ritual at Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state.
[9] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while performing prayer at Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
[10] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan.
[11] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: Army executes a citizen while he was performing prayer in Jabrat al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
[12] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing his prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh, North Kordofan state
[13] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while performing the prayer ritual in Jabra al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
[14] 2026-08-22 - Sudan War Monitor: The army executes a citizen while he was performing the prayer ritual in Jabrat al-Sheikh in North Kordofan state
...and 43 more not listed here.

See also: Sudan

Publication history

What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)
rev 2, 2026-08-26 — +1 source(s)
rev 3, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

Sources

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How this page is made

Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).