Mahamat Kaka's junta and his allied in the UAE have been accused by General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF)-backed regime of fuelling the war in Sudan by supplying arms to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the command of Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...
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Last week's visits to Ethiopia and Uganda were the first public trips abroad by Rapid Support Forces Commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' since the start of the civil war with Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan's Sudan Armed Forces in April...
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While the UAE was hosting the COP28 climate summit its diplomats were expelled from Sudan by SAF commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan for shipping arms to the RSF via Chad...
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Hemeti's posture as a representative of the periphery in Darfur ignores the reality that many in Darfur accuse both him and the SAF Commander Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan of running the genocidal campaigns in the region on behalf of President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's Islamist regime two decades ago...
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- CHAD
- FRANCE
The intensifying fight for control of Darfur between the RSF and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) under Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan has driven over 450 000 Sudanese into Chad according to the latest reports from the World Health Organization...
Adding to Egypt's longer term but discreet support for General Abdel Fattah al Burhan's Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) which likes to call itself the government Iran has offered military help (AC Vol 64 No 21 Politics in a time of war)...
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Instead reports are emerging of intensifying fighting in Darfur between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) under General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the command of Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' (AC Vol 64 No 22 Amid regional chaos a glimmer of hope in Jeddah and Addis)...
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General Abdel Fattah al Burhan mocked by his adversaries as the 'basement commander' – a reference to his decision to stay in the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) General Command Compound from the start of the war in April until late August – has been using his freedom since then to mobilise diplomatic support against Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...
Agar's boss Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan went the rounds of his international supporters mainly Egypt and Turkey when he attended the UN General Assembly in New York a few days later but failed to win their full backing while the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ramps up its support of Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' and his Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Darfur (AC Vol 62 No 22 Burhan tries to negotiate after coup falters)...
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Suggestions by Sudan Armed Forces commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan that he is willing to open negotiations with his rival Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' head of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia offers a chance to negotiate a ceasefire but lacked any clear plan to structure the talks...
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