The leadership of Sudan’s Islamic Movement held a mass meeting with its members in the halls of the preparatory college at Gezira University, in a tense gathering marked by highly charged, mobilising rhetoric and the presence of several central figures in the organisation.
According to sources who attended Saturday’s session, participants debated proposals for talks on a ceasefire put forward by regional and international actors. The meeting ended with a formal recommendation rejecting any negotiations at this stage, in what observers see as a clear signal of hardening positions within the movement toward the political track.
The discussions featured sharp interventions from rank-and-file members, who launched fierce verbal attacks on SAF chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, accusing him of what they called “evasive and deceptive positions” in managing the war.
Speakers reaffirmed their commitment to what they described as a “decisive battle,” declaring their readiness to fight until the “complete elimination of the Rapid Support Forces.” The tone reflected a more hardline mood at the grassroots level of the Islamic Movement toward both negotiations and the military leadership.
Analysts say the development is one of the clearest signs yet of growing rifts within Islamist currents over how the war should end, even as international pressure mounts to push Sudan’s warring parties back to the negotiating table.
