General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the de facto ruler of Sudan and leader of the Sovereign Council, arrived in Libya today where he held talks with the country’s Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh in the capital Tripoli.
In his first visit to Libya, Burhan discussed with Dbeibeh “a number of regional and international issues of common interest between the two countries,” according to a brief statement by the Libyan premier’s media office.
Earlier this week, Dbeibeh urged Burhan’s rival, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, to find a point of agreement with the actors involved in the civil war in Sudan to bring peace to the country. The statement came during a telephone conversation in which Dbeibeh invited the Sudanese general to visit Libya.
War broke out in Sudan on April 15 last year after the collapse of a plan to integrate the army and the Rapid Support Forces.
The fighting in Sudan has killed at least 7,500 people, according to the NGO Acled, and displaced some five million people, dealing a new, devastating blow to efforts to bring democracy to Sudan.
Burhan has increasingly been traveling around the world in what are seen as efforts to burnish his legitimacy.