Al-Burhan’s Adviser Launches Fierce Attack on UAE and ‘Hotel-Based Allies’

Political adviser to the President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Amjad Farid, has launched a sharp attack on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and political forces aligned with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, saying Sudan’s current battle is an existential struggle against genocide rather than a debate over constitutional models of governance.

In a series of posts on the social media platform X, Farid said concepts of democracy and civilian rule are deeply rooted in Sudanese society and are not imported slogans, rejecting claims of any Emirati role in supporting a civilian transition. He stressed that democracy and civilian governance are not exports from the United Arab Emirates, describing it as a state that has not practiced either throughout its history.

He added that it is impossible to exercise democracy for a people facing genocide, saying that “ballot boxes are not erected in cemeteries,” and referred to atrocities he said occurred from El Geneina and Khartoum to Al Gezira and El Fasher.

Farid also mocked political figures who, in his words, ignore the war and openly align themselves with perpetrators, describing them as moving between “militia trenches and Abu Dhabi’s luxury hotels.”
He labeled these forces “political hypocrites” who, he said, trade in Sudanese blood in pursuit of power under the banner of supporting civilian rule.