Record number in Kenana – Masarat of President Burhan – ✍️ Mahfouz Abdeen
There may be figures in the history of leaders and presidents of Sudan before the national rule before independence or after the national rule after independence or in a more distant period of the relatively ancient history of Sudan.
Anyone who looks at Sudan's history from this perspective can find figures that constitute a break from the periods of government that these presidents have spent in power in Sudan.
At a glance, the longest period of rule took place in Sudan in the history of Abdullah Jamaa and for modern generations, Abd Jamaa established the first Islamic regime in the country in alliance with Ammar Dunqas in the year (1504) AD, and its capital was in Halfaya al-Muluk in Bahri. According to information, this reign lasted for almost sixty years.
The shortest period in the history of Sudan is that of Lieutenant General Awad Ibn Aouf, because it lasted only (23) hours, meaning that he did not complete a single day, and after that he resigned, and this period lasted until April 11, 2019 AD, after which Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan took over from that year (2024 AD).
During this period, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, recorded during his reign figures and events that had never been recorded before in the history of the presidents and leaders of Sudan, at least in the period following national rule after Sudan's independence in 1956.
Perhaps the most striking of these events and figures is that Al-Burhan is the only president to have suffered two assassination attempts in just (15) months, the first in the second half of April of the year (2023) and the second. It was the last week of July of the year (2024), the first attempt took place in central Sudan, in Khartoum, and the second in eastern Sudan, in the Jebeit region.
Al-Burhan is the only Sudanese president under whose rule the country's capital, Khartoum, witnessed a rebellion from within, with the population so dense that it surrounded the capital on all sides.
And for all those who came before him in power, the rebellion emanated from the peripheries, as was the case in South Sudan, West Sudan and East Sudan.
Al-Burhan is the only president in Sudan whose first vice president, Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, rebelled against him and wanted to kill him and all his senior aides in the army leadership.
Al-Burhan is the first leader to lead the longest transitional period in Sudan, which has entered its sixth year, and it is longer than the periods of rule in which presidents ruled Sudan, such as the period of President Ibrahim Abboud (1958) to (1964), and it is longer than the periods of the first and second democratic regimes, as the first was in the period from (1956) to (1958) AD, and the second was in the year (1964) to (1969) AD.
Al-Burhan is the first Sudanese president to face aggression from 17 countries at the same time, and these countries have not achieved the desired breakthrough.
Al-Burhan is the only president under whose rule the administrative capital was transferred from Khartoum to Port Sudan. Previously, the capital had been transferred according to the regimes in power before independence, and the British also moved it from Wad Madani to Khartoum.
Al-Burhan is the first Sudanese president of the national government to publicly meet with the top official of the Israeli entity in Entebbe, Uganda, after less than two years in office.
President Al-Burhan is the first Sudanese president to have continued to wear khaki in honor of the armed forces for six consecutive years, except when his visits abroad required it.
Al-Burhan is the only Sudanese president to have retained his military rank for six years without being promoted to the highest rank to which all ranks were promoted, including members of the Sovereignty Council.
This is an attempt at memory to trace part of the process of governance, and this case, by reading the standard numbers and events in the rule of evidence, can be a guide to research more, especially researchers in political science and governance affairs, or to researchers in modern history of Sudan, or to professionals and enthusiasts of documentation. This attempt constitutes an entry point to trace this period of Sudanese domination.
