The Sudan Founding Alliance (TASIS) said on Monday it welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s stated intention to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, describing the step as key to ending Sudan’s decades of conflict.
The announcement came shortly after the U.S. state of Texas formally classified the Muslim Brotherhood as a “terrorist organization,” a move that has stirred debate across the United States and the wider region.
In its statement, TASIS said Trump’s position, outlined in comments to the outlet “Just the News,” represented “the correct and necessary path” to address what it called the root causes of Sudan’s wars. The alliance argued that the Brotherhood’s seizure of power in 1989 through a military coup laid the foundations for successive conflicts across the country.
TASIS said designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group was not only relevant to the war that erupted on April 15 between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, but to “all the wars that have plagued Sudan” since the Islamist movement took control of the state more than three decades ago.
