A Sudanese military council convened April 11 to discuss overthrowing President Omar al-Bashir, against whom the Sudanese had been protesting since December 2018. Hours after the meeting, Defense Minister Awad Ibn Auf announced that Bashir would be ousted and a new military council formed to govern the country for two years, after which power would transition to an elected civilian president.

While the situation seems to be advancing positively for the Sudanese people, Egyptians who had fled to Sudan seem to think otherwise, particularly after the coup against Bashir, who had supported the Muslim Brotherhood members taking refuge there.

There is no official tally of the Egyptians who fled to Sudan since Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was ousted in 2013, but there are a large number of Brotherhood leaders, including parliament members, a Brotherhood deputy general counsel and others, as well as Brotherhood members and young affiliates.

Ismail Assem, a Brotherhood member who fled after being indicted for the attempted assassination of a deputy attorney general in 2016, told Al-Monitor that the situation in Sudan has been tenuous since Bashir’s ouster. He noted that the Brotherhood is panicking as all the leaders in Bashir’s party and the regime, with whom they used to communicate, are unreachable, either in detention or on the run.