Retired Major General Fadlallah Burma Nasser, head of a National Umma Party faction, has said Sudan’s Islamic Movement started the ongoing civil war to regain permanent control of the country.
Speaking in Nyala on Thursday, Nasser described confronting the Islamic Front as a national necessity to prevent it from establishing long-term authoritarian rule.
He credited the weapons of the Rapid Support Forces with thwarting the Islamic Front’s broader political ambitions.
Nasser said his party’s controversial alliance was driven by a wider national project rather than personal interests.
He defended the faction’s decisions by pointing to the party’s constitution, its supporters and its institutions.
Nasser said the party’s participation in the Nairobi conference forced its leadership to choose between aligning with the population and other political forces.
He concluded that protecting Sudan’s fractured homeland remained a supreme responsibility under both the party’s constitution and the will of the people.
