Abdul-Jabbar Ibrahim, a leader in the Sudanese Republican Party, stated that recent U.S. decisions are boosting the strength of the Islamic Movement militias, effectively serving the global Muslim Brotherhood organization.
Ibrahim emphasized that the Biden administration has failed to address the situation in Sudan effectively, noting that it has not provided meaningful support to a population suffering from hunger, displacement, death, and rape over the past two years.
He argued that imposing sanctions on only one side of the conflict disrupts the balance of power, ultimately supporting the opposing faction.
Ibrahim added that if sanctions were necessary, they must include General al-Burhan’s forces (SAF) to reduce their military capabilities and thus contribute to ending the conflict.
Furthermore, he pointed out that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had responded positively to international calls for negotiations, granting their leadership broad authority to make key decisions and allowing humanitarian aid to enter.
In contrast, SAF and its allied extremist militias rejected calls for negotiations and withdrew from the Jeddah Declaration, which the Biden administration used as a pretext to impose sanctions.
Ibrahim concluded that while the U.S. actions may theoretically seem to strengthen the Islamic Movement militias, they will not have any practical impact on the ground.
