CAIRO – 29 August 2023: Chairman of Sudan Transitional Sovereignty Council Abdel Fatah al-Burhan said Tuesday in a press conference in Egypt that the Sudanese Armed Forces aims for achieving democracy, holding elections, and not remaining in power. Burhan noted that the Sudanese Armed Forces was facing rebel groups that committed war crimes against civilians in Khartoum, Geneina, Nyala, and Zalingei. We want to make a real transitional period paving the way for the Sudanese people to hold free and fair elections to select a ruler," Burhan said. "There are lies that the Armed Forces is fostering the former regime, Islamist and terrorist groups. Those are a scarecrow to frighten the Sudanese people," the chairman of Sudan Transitional Sovereignty Council added.
