Head of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council tours North Kordofan areas seized from paramilitary RSF
Anadolu Agency
Anadolu Agency
Latest news on Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, a Sudanese army general who is the de facto ruler of Sudan. He was born in 1960 in the village of Gandatu in northern Sudan, to a Sufi 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 among the 31st batch. He rose through the ranks and in the early 2000s he was posted in the Darfur region as a senior commander fighting the rebels.