They are the product of an era that many thought was long gone. However, in the wake of the civil war that has been tearing the country apart since April 2023, several leading figures from the administration of Omar al-Bashir (1989–2019) have been reinstated by the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the general who heads the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). He has relied on a handful of businessmen, ideologues and former military officers to finance his war effort and continue to mobilise the populations