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Despite their close ties with the regimes in United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia and Egypt Sudan's ruling generals Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' have not been able to secure enough pledges of cash from the regional autocracies to ease their country's deepening economic crisis...
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Tensions between the military and the Rapid Support Forces under General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' on one side and radical civilian critics of them on the other escalated after the failed coup on 21 September...
Neither General Abdul Fatteh al Burhan nor Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' have had much exposure beyond Egypt and the Gulf States which might explain their miscalculations...
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Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...
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Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' the former Janjaweed militia leader turned Commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has taken a step back...
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It may not be Burhan however from whom Hamdok has most to fear but rather his deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...
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This is also useful for General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' born in Chad and Commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) an incarnation of the Janjaweed militias which rampaged across Darfur two decades ago...
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It adds that Lieutenant-General Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo the second-in-command of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) the rebadged Janjaweed militia operating in Darfur and Deputy Chair of the ruling Sovereign Council Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' have incorporated several private companies in Sudan and the United Arab Emirates...
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Although the Arab population is six times larger than the Zaghawa they have only one General Bichara Issa Djadallah who is a Rizeigat/Mahariya and a cousin of Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' Deputy Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Military Council...
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Vol 62 No 2 |
- ETHIOPIA
- SUDAN
Egypt has been quick to back Sudan announcing its full support for Sudan's right to protect the security of its territory; the head of Egypt's General Intelligence Service Gen Abbas Kamel met Gen Burhan and Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' in Khartoum on 4 January to discuss Ethio-Sudan relations and GERD and a week later Lt Gen Shams el Din Kabashi a member of Sudan's Sovereign Council briefed President Abdel Fattah el Sisi in Cairo...
The military and the allied Rapid Support Forces headed by Sovereignty Council number two Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' have benefited from the support of the UAE Egypt and Saudi Arabia even if these countries feel obliged to allow for some involvement of civilians in the running of Sudan...
Another precondition of disarming the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) headed by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' is even more unacceptable to the military...
Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti': The deputy head of Sudan's Sovereignty Council and commander of the RSF militia with its estimated 40 000 fighters Hemeti hopes to use the peace talks to revamp his image for his post-transition presidential ambitions...