Draft:Amgad Fareid Eltayeb

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Amgad Fareid Eltayeb (Arabic: أمجد فريد الطيب) is a Sudanese political advisor, medical doctor, and policy analyst. He serves as Political and Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council, General Abdelfattah El-Burhan since 2026.

Eltayeb previously served as Assistant Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok during Sudan's democratic transition from 2019 to 2021, and later worked as a political advisor to the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS). He has also been a visiting fellow with the Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and served as executive director of Fikra for Studies and Development, a Sudanese policy institute.

Eltayeb trained as a medical doctor and completed postgraduate studies in public health and research methodology. He worked as a medical practitioner and health researcher before entering political analysis and public policy.^{[citation needed ]}

From 2001 to 2016, Eltayeb was a member of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) and served as Political Secretary of its Doctors' Sector in Khartoum.^{[citation needed ]} In October 2016, he resigned along with several fellow physicians, citing political differences.^[1] He has since remained politically independent.^{[citation needed ]}

Eltayeb was involved in founding two Sudanese youth movements. In 2009, he participated in establishing Girifna (Arabic: قرفنا, meaning "We Are Fed Up"), a non-violent civil society movement focused on civil rights and democratic reform.^{[2] [failed verification ]}

In 2010, Eltayeb co-founded Sudan Change Now, a movement advocating political reform, human rights, and youth participation in public affairs, serving as its spokesperson. Both organisations were active in pro-democracy campaigns preceding the 2018–2019 Sudanese Revolution.^{[citation needed ]}

In 2013, Eltayeb founded the Nafeer Initiative, a volunteer mobilisation movement established in response to the floods that affected Sudan that year.^{[citation needed ]} Nafeer (Arabic: نفير, a traditional Sudanese concept of communal solidarity and collective action) coordinated volunteers from across Sudan to provide emergency relief and humanitarian assistance. The initiative was later examined in academic research on disaster response and spontaneous volunteerism.^[3]

In September 2013, Eltayeb was a founding member and spokesperson of a coordination body formed during the protests that followed the Sudanese government's announcement of fuel subsidy cuts.^{[4] [failed verification ]} The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which had recently been formalised from the Janjaweed militia structure, participated in the suppression of the protests. According to the Small Arms Survey, an estimated 200 demonstrators were killed in Khartoum over a three-day period.^{[citation needed ]}

Eltayeb was detained by the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) furing the September 2013^[5] and January 2018 protests.^[6]

In 2018, Eltayeb joined the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), an organisation that played a central role in the protests against Omar al-Bashir.^{[7] [failed verification ]}

He served on the leadership council of the SPA, chairing its Foreign Relations Committee, and was a member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition, which negotiated with the military following al-Bashir's removal in April 2019.^{[8] [failed verification ]}

During the revolution, Eltayeb also served as an international spokesperson for the SPA.^{[citation needed ]}

From December 2019 to February 2021, during Sudan's transitional period, Eltayeb served as Assistant Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. In this role, he supported the Prime Minister's Office on political affairs, foreign relations, and donor communications.^{[citation needed ]}

Following the October 2021 military coup led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Eltayeb served as a political advisor to the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS). In this capacity, he advised on domestic political developments following the dissolution of the transitional government.^[9]

Eltayeb served as a visiting fellow with the Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), where he authored analyses and policy briefs regarding Sudan and the Horn of Africa.^{[citation needed ]}

In 2026, Eltayeb was appointed Political and Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council, General Abdelfattah El-Burhan.^[10]

Eltayeb has written on Sudanese civil–military relations, democratic transition, and regional security. His published commentary has focused on the role of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudanese politics, advocating for institutional reform within the Sudanese Armed Forces while distinguishing state military structures from paramilitary groups. He has also published analysis on refugee and migration policy in the Horn of Africa, as well as the regional and international dimensions of the 2023 civil war in Sudan.^{[citation needed ]}

In March 2022, Eltayeb was convicted of domestic abuse after assulting his wife in 2014.^{[11] [12] [13]} Eltayeb denied the allegations, maintaining his innocence and describing the legal proceedings as a politically motivated smear campaign.^{[citation needed ]}

• "Sudan: Power Demonstrations of a Failed State" (July 2012). ITPCM International Commentary, 8 (30).
• "Why is the EU-Khartoum Process So Wrong on So Many Levels" (6 November 2017). Sudan Tribune.
• "Judas Face of Europe: What Can You Do with Thirty Coins of Silver?" (9 December 2017). Sudan Tribune.
• "Understanding the Travail of Change in Sudan" (January 2019). Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal.
• "To Safeguard Sudan's Democratic Transition, Act Now" (3 January 2022). Foreign Policy.
• "Endless War in Sudan Is Not the Only Option" (23 May 2024). Al Majalla.