RSF leader Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' has been in Darfur for weeks...

One is the marginalisation of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' and the forced integration of his Rapid Support Forces (RSF) into the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF)...

On 17 May a senior French diplomat Bruno Foucher Special Envoy to Chad landed in Khartoum to meet Burhan and his deputy Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' to discuss the crisis in Ndjamena rather than Sudan's own troubles...

General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' number two in Sudan's ruling Sovereign Council is under pressure from all sides as his relations deteriorate with the military increasingly powerful Islamists and the Darfuri signatories of the Juba Peace Agreement...

Meanwhile deputy head of the ruling Sovereign Council General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' has focused on Russia standing alongside it despite the Ukraine invasion...

At the junta's core are the persisting tensions between head of state General Abdel Fattah al Burhan commander of the SAF and his deputy Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' commander of the RSF...

The junta in Sudan has clearly tried to use this crisis to send a message to the West with General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' and a ministerial delegation led by the minister of finance Jibril Ibrahim travelling to Moscow just before Russian troops entered Ukraine...

Complicating matters is the mutual distrust trust between the junta leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and his deputy Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...

Meanwhile the Russians are trying to make connections between the Bangui government and Sudan's Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' head of the rebranded Janjaweed the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and number two in the military regime in Khartoum...