The Wagner Group also has its own mines division and deploys gold-mining equipment it has brought in from the mines it runs in neighbouring Sudan with the permission of Sudan junta number two Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...

Yet despite continuing violence and another coup last October there is no end in sight to the rivalry between the Rapid Support Forces of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' and the Sudan Armed Forces under General Abdel Fattah al Burhan nor an unequivocal resolution in favour of military rule as a whole...

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...