Britain recognizes General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan as TSC President

The Head of the Mission at the Sudan’s Embassy in London, Ambassador Babiker Al-Siddig Mohamed Al-Amin, met on Friday with the UK Minister for Africa, Lord Collins.

Lord Collins renewed the position announced by the British Permanent Representative to the United Nations on Wednesday, rejecting the so-called political charter signed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia and its followers in Nairobi, stressing the need to preserve Sudan’s unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Mr. Collins said that his country recognizes General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan as President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC).

The meeting deliberated on the conference that the British government intends to organize on Sudan and its desire to consult with the Sudanese government about it.

For this purpose, the Director-General for Africa, the Americas and Overseas Territories, and the British Special Representative to Sudan will be sent, explaining that their focus is on the humanitarian situation and helping to end the war and resume the democratic transition.

The Head of the Mission at the Sudanese Embassy in London explained the recent developments in Sudan and the success of the armed forces and the supporting forces, backed by all the Sudanese people, in liberating most of the areas occupied by the militia in all states, except Darfur states.

He stated that the armed forces, the armed struggle movements in Darfur and the people of Darfur are united against the Janjaweed militia, and are seeking to eliminate its jeopardy after it committed crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing and sought to empty Darfur of its people to settle its mercenaries and foreign elements.
Ambassador Al-Amin said that the fastest way to end the war is to pressure the militia’s sponsor to stop supplying it with weapons and mercenaries, and to take punitive measures against the militia’s commanders, noting that there are countries that still receive militia leaderships, such as Kenya, which has officially announced its adoption of the parallel government that the militia intends to announce.

The head of the embassy mission in London explained that the areas retaken by the armed forces are witnessing an intensive movement of citizens returning, as the number of returnees in the past weeks has reached about two million. This is in contrast to what used to happen when the militia attacked villages and cities, where the residents fled as soon as they approached them, noting that this clarifies who is protecting civilians.

The ambassador handed the British minister reports to the International Organization for Migration, including some statistics on those returning to Sennar State after its liberation, as well as handing him a complete dossier on rape, sexual violence and kidnapping of women by the militia, as the Lord Collins is considered the British Prime Minister’s Special Representative for the Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict.