Sudan: El Burhan Says 'U.S. Arms Embargo Proposal Will Fail At UN'

What the report says

Sudan’s army chief and Sovereignty Council president, Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, said a U.S.-backed proposal to expand the UN arms embargo from Darfur to the whole of Sudan will not succeed at the UN Security Council. The remarks were reported by Dabanga and carried by AllAfrica from Khartoum and New York City. El Burhan spoke to journalists at the army’s General Command in Khartoum on Thursday, according to the report, and said the draft would not pass in its current “American formula.”

The Security Council delayed its vote on the draft from Thursday to Friday to allow more consultations, reflecting reported divisions among council members over the measure. The proposal matters because it would broaden an existing embargo beyond Darfur, a region already covered by UN restrictions, and could affect weapons flows in the wider conflict in Sudan.

El Burhan also used the briefing to restate his opposition to armed militias and to reject any future role for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. He accused the RSF of abuses against civilians, though the article did not provide independent evidence for those claims. In a separate political defense, he again described the October 2021 military takeover as a corrective step rather than a coup. More broadly, the dispute underscores continuing international pressure on Sudan’s warring parties and the wider debate over how to limit arms in the conflict.