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Last week Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) threatened to set up a governing authority in areas under the control of his forces...
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When the war of the generals broke out on 15 April General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' the commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had clear objectives: to thwart the plan to subsume his paramilitary force under the command of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) within two years and to do so his fighters would capture General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and other senior military officers...
WHO'S WHO IN THE RAPID SUPPORT FORCES General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti': the commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) hails from South Darfur where the section of the Rizeigat tribe that moved from Chad settled in 1987...
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Burhan's Sudan Armed Forces have opposed Ruto's role as chief mediator for the Intergovernmental Authority on Development the eight-country trade bloc covering Eastern Africa and the Horn arguing that he is a former business ally of RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...
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The SAF has called for Ruto to be replaced as IGAD's lead mediator accusing his government of harbouring members of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti's' RSF (AC Vol 64 No 14 A man for all summits)...
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General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' and the RSF deny all responsibility...
Last month the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the appointment of Ruto to head a quartet formed by IGAD countries to mediate peace talks accusing Kenya of 'bias' towards the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...
Vol 64 No 14 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
As Wagner's putsch led by mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin unfolded in Russia on 23-24 June many in Africa saw strong parallels with the bid for power launched by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' and his Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan on 15 April...
Should the SAF prevail it is unthinkable that General Abdel Fattah al Burhan will offer any political or commercial accommodation to General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...
Vol 64 No 12 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
That suggested he would escalate fighting with the paramilitary forces of Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...
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Shunting aside other interlocutors such as the UN the African Union and the European Union Saudi Arabia and the United States had brokered talks between Sudan Armed Forces commander Gen Burhan and leader of the Rapid Support Forces Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' that had led to a partially respected ceasefire that was also meant to speed the supply of humanitarian aid...
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The Jeddah agreement is supposed to cover all of Sudan but representatives of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' reminded their counterparts in Jeddah that the RSF is only one group among many armed militias in Darfur...
Outsiders criticised her for failing to sanction Generals Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' but they said less on the Biden administration's other missteps...