Raino: Agencies, Leaks from a meeting of Islamic Movement leaders in Turkey indicate that the movement’s battalions are planning a large-scale attack on Khartoum on April 18th, coinciding with the start of a new round of negotiations in the Bahraini capital Manama, which U.S. envoy to Sudan Tom Prillo had previously predicted would take place.

The leak states that the Islamic Movement meeting discussed the experiences of the Taliban and the Houthis in Afghanistan and Yemen, and the possibility of applying them, on condition of seizing the capital Khartoum and ignoring the Darfur and Kordofan regions in order to form a government and establish a state in the east and north of the country on the Libyan model. It was decided to set April 18th as the date for a major attack on the capital, which aims to expel the Rapid Support Forces from it and make it the capital of the State of North and East Sudan.

The meeting rejected efforts to form a parallel body to the Coordination of Democratic Forces led by Malik عقار, considering that it “is not in the interest of the movement.” It also rejected a proposal to ally with the Sudanese Communist Party against the civilian democratic forces, considering that the discourse of the December Revolution might then prevail again.