A planned Washington summit of the “Quad”—the United States, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt—has been postponed after Cairo insisted General al-Burhan’s army (SAF) should attend and Washington refused, a Western diplomat told reporters on Monday.
The meeting was meant to craft a joint response to Sudan’s civil war. Egypt pressed for representatives of the SAF to be at the table, but the U.S. objected, pointing to sanctions it imposed in January on SAF chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and other officers. Washington instead suggested inviting members of the civilian cabinet ousted in the 2021 coup, a proposal Egypt rejected, the diplomat said.
While the Quad schedule remains in limbo, Sudanese political and civil-society figures met African Union officials in Addis Ababa on Monday to explore a separate peace track.
