Burhan met with Sisi in Cairo on 18 December, days after talks with Bin Salman and other Saudi officials. United States President Donald Trump’s Africa envoy Massad Boulos was also in Riyadh at the same time and met with Saudi officials, though he is not believed to have held talks with Burhan. Bin Salman says that Trump agreed to his request to intervene in the Sudanese civil war during their meeting in the Oval Office in November. The SAF’s longstanding position has been to refuse direct talks with the RSF . Unlike the RSF, it has so far also refused to support a US-drafted ceasefire plan presented in October (Dispatches, 10/11/25, Burhan under pressure after Hemeti backs US ceasefire plan).

Source: The North Africa Journal December 22, 2025 11:11 UTC