Sudan’s al-Burhan travels to Juba ahead of peace signing ceremony

KHARTOUM – The leader of Sudan’s Sovereign Council General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has left the Sudanese capital Khartoum heading to Juba, South Sudan, where a landmark ceremony for signing of the Sudanese peace deal is expected to take place tomorrow.

“This afternoon, the Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, went to Juba to participate in the final signing ceremony of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement on October 3 between the government and the components of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front in Juba, the capital of the Republic of South Sudan,” Sudan’s official news agency, SUNA, reports.

According to SUNA, al-Burhan is accompanied by two members of the Sovereignty Council, Ms. Aisha Musa Al-Saeed, Ms. Rajaa Nicola, Director of General Intelligence, Lieutenant General Gamal Abdel-Majid, Secretary-General of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant-General Muhammad Al-Ghali Ali Yusef, and Governor of White Nile State Professor Ismail Fateh Al-Rahman Warraq.

He and his accompanying delegation were seen off by the members of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Yasser Al-Atta, and the team, Engineer Ibrahim Jaber.