Former Sudanese prime minister Abdalla Hamdok dismissed recent victories by General al-Burhan’s forces (SAF) as hollow.
Speaking at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s governance conference, Hamdok called the Burhan army’s (SAF) formation of a new government “fake.”
“Whether Khartoum is captured or not captured, it’s irrelevant,” he said. “There is no military solution to this.”
Hamdok led Burhan’s fragile government starting in 2019 but resigned in January 2022 after coups and political upheaval.
The country has since been engulfed in a conflict between Burhan’s SAF and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The war, which has lasted two years, has killed at least 24,000 people and displaced 13 million, creating one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
Burhan’s forces claim they retook Khartoum in March and surrounding areas. Yet fighting persists as the RSF regroups in Darfur and Kordofan.
Hamdok, now leading a civilian coalition from exile, called claims that the conflict is easing “total nonsense.”
He said reconstruction efforts in Khartoum are “absolutely ridiculous” amid ongoing war.
