Al-Burhan Adviser: Chemical Weapons Claims Are “Gossip”

Sudan on Saturday rejected reports by US media outlets alleging that the Sudanese Army has an organized program for producing and stockpiling chemical weapons and has used them during the war that has been raging in the country since April 2023, describing the claims as “rumors dressed up as intelligence.”

Amjad Farid Al-Tayeb, Adviser to the President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) for Political Affairs and Foreign Relations, said in a post on X that claims regarding the use of chemical weapons in Sudan were “nothing more than gossip dressed up as intelligence,” mocking the evidence cited in the reports and saying: “Their alleged evidence? Dead scorpions!”

Al-Tayeb called on the international community to address the Sudanese war “with the seriousness it deserves,” while urging action to end what he described as the “UAE’s involvement” in the war, accusing it of contributing to fueling and escalating the conflict.

The US newspapers The New York Times and The Washington Post claimed to have obtained documents referring to an alleged chemical weapons program in Sudan. Commenting on the reports, Al-Burhan’s adviser criticized what he described as “distorting the truth and misrepresenting reality,” noting that The New York Times report was co-authored by the newspaper’s correspondent in Tel Aviv.