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...
Generals Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' had said they support a humanitarian ceasefire but have intensified the fighting over the past week (AC Vol 64 No 9 Regional states hold back for now)...
Despite multiple attempts to dampen the tensions after the SAF commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and RSF leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' failed to reach agreement on integrating their forces by the 29 March deadline preparations for a fight to the finish rumbled on (AC Vol 64 No 9 Mediators proliferate as fighting intensifies and more flee Khartoum)...
On his social media platforms General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' emphasises these developments hoping to win some international kudos by citing the threat of an Islamist regime returning to power in Khartoum...
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The feared internationalisation of the fight between the forces of Generals Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' is contingent on how long it lasts and its outcome in Khartoum...
All of them have called on the rival military leaders General Abdel Fattah al Burhan of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to pause the fighting that has claimed over 400 lives and wounded over 3 500 in the capital alone according to the UN Office for Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)...
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Last week following weeks of interrogation by the opposition Miltiadis Varvitsiotis a junior foreign affairs minister in the conservative Greek government admitted that it had granted permission to export the Predator software to Sudan where it is believed to have been used by the Rapid Support Forces led by Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...
Greek opposition lawmakers say that the software was transported by plane from Cyprus to Khartoum in late 2022 and delivered to the RSF led by Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...
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The civilian Forces for Freedom and Change-Central Council (FFC-CC) and the two leaders of the military junta General Abdel Fattah al Burhan Commander of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' who heads the Rapid Support Forces signed the framework plan in December (AC Vol 64 No 2 History won't repeat itself)...
No surprises there perhaps but the next day his number two Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' followed him to the Chadian capital – but with a different agenda...