New Dossier Exposes Sudanese Armed Forces Secret Chemical Weapons Programme With Direct Knowledge of General Al Burhan

A dossier of nearly 150 documents, images, videos and voice notes shared with The New York Times by a Middle Eastern intelligence agency, and reviewed separately by The Washington Post, alleges that Sudan's military built a chlorine-weapons program in 2024 under Brig. Gen. Tariq Hussain 123. Intercepted messages and video reviewed by the Post show a July 2024 desert test near Merowe airport and describe roughly 300 munitions produced by October, with chlorine sourced partly from Egyptian imports and partly from Al Manara water-treatment plant in Omdurman, which had received cylinders from the Red Cross, CARE and UNICEF 13. The Post's own investigation identifies the program's operational director not as Hussain but as Tariq Madani, an SAF officer the U.S. Treasury sanctioned in June as managing director of Target Multiactivities Company Ltd for importing explosives from Egyptian and Indian suppliers; an intercepted exchange indicates 106 of the roughly 290-300 munitions had already been used, and a man reached by the Post at a number tied to Madani denied any knowledge of chemical-weapons production 13. Voice and text messages involving Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan indicate he had direct knowledge of the program, a factor US officials cited in sanctioning him in January 2025, and intercepts show he later ordered Hussain to "remove all traces" after the May 2025 US sanctions, according to The National and Khaleej Times relays of the Times reporting 24. A Sudanese military spokesman called the dossier "baseless and without material foundation" and threatened legal action against the Times, while a Sudanese investigative committee that included Hussain among its advisers reported in July finding no evidence of chemical weapons 23.