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Abdel Fattah al-Burhan

عبد الفتاح البرهان
Head of state In government Independent Verified

Chairman of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council and de facto head of state since 2019; commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces in the ongoing war with the RSF.

Country
Sudan
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of state

Individual position

Scored from Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's own documents rather than inherited from a party — capturing where this figure diverges from the party line. Provisional, document-grounded estimate; see methodology.

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's spider profile
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Pan-Arab vs particularist → pan-Arab Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
Axis scores
Economic —
Social —
State & religion —
Liberal democracy -3.0
West alignment +4.0
Regional stance +3.0
Palestinian question —
Civil liberties —
Regime stance —
Pan-Arab vs particularist —
Centralism vs federalism —
Traditionalism vs modernization —
Gender equality —
Iran posture —
Press freedom —

On the record

Quotes attributed to Abdel Fattah al-Burhan that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • Due to the documented crimes of ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, and genocide committed by the Rapid Support Forces militia, this group deserves to be classified as a terrorist organization.
    نظراً للجرائم الموثّقة من تطهير عرقيّ وتهجير قسريّ وإبادة جماعيّة التي ارتكبتها ميليشيا قوّات الدعم السريع، فإنّ هذه المجموعة تستحقّ تصنيفها منظّمة إرهابيّة.
    2024 General Burhan at the 79th UNGA naming the RSF as a terrorist organization. The signature SAF position in the Sudanese civil war. sudanembassy.nl

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Abdel Fattah al-Burhan [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/burhan
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Abdel Fattah al-Burhan." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/burhan.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-burhan,
  title     = {{Abdel Fattah al-Burhan}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/burhan},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.