November 29, 2024 (ISTANBUL) – Prominent Islamist preacher Abdel Hay Youssif launched a blistering attack on Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Wednesday, accusing him of being untrustworthy and claiming Islamists, not the army, deserve credit for recent battlefield successes. Speaking at a lecture organized by Mukarbat for Political Development, a Syrian Islamist centre in Istanbul, where he has resided since the fall of the former regime, Youssif claimed al-Burhan and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo “Hemetti” are both connected to “the Zionists.” “Both have ties with the Zionists,” Youssif said. “Hemetti is linked to the Mossad, while al-Burhan went directly to meet (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu in Entebbe.” Youssif accused al-Burhan of allowing the RSF to occupy strategic positions in the capital, Khartoum, without army approval and of amending laws to enable the RSF to expand and recruit unchecked. Youssif has a history of supporting military rule in Sudan. He backed the 2019 dispersal of a sit-in protest outside army headquarters and the 2021 coup led by al-Burhan and Hemetti. After war broke out in April, Youssif sided with the army against the RSF. However, his support appears to have waned. Youssif said …

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