Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey held talks on Sudan’s future in Cairo with a U.S. official, while deliberately excluding Sudan’s own foreign minister representing the Burhan government.

At the same time, Misbah Abu Zaid Talha, commander of the Al-Baraa Bin Malik Brigade (a U.S.-designated terrorist group linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and deeply embedded in the Sudanese Armed Forces), was reported to be in Riyadh.

The author argues this reveals a pattern in which regional powers are shielding Islamist networks inside Sudan’s military rather than genuinely advancing an inclusive peace process, leaving Sudanese officials sidelined.

Last month, Egypt’s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, hosted a gathering that, on its surface, looked like the kind of multilateral consultations that define crisis diplomacy. Abdelatty met with his Saudi and Turkish counterparts alongside Mosaad Boulos, the senior White House advisor for Arab and African affairs, in Cairo to discuss developments in Sudan. Port Sudan’s foreign minister, Mohi El-Din Salem, was in Cairo at the same time and was conspicuously absent from the meeting where his country’s future was being negotiated.

The snub was hard to miss. Boulos later posted a summary of the talks naming Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, with no mention of Sudan. The minister representing General Abd al-Fattah al-Burhan’s Transitional Sovereign Council, by several accounts, stood entirely outside........

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