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Apr
13
2024
By AIDAN LEWIS
Sudan’s conflict: Who is backing the rival commanders?

Sudan’s conflict: Who is backing the rival commanders?

SPECIAL FEATURES: ANALYSIS
AS a devastating conflict has unfolded across Sudan over the past year, the country's military rivals have sought support from foreign backers as they try to tip the contest in their favour. That backing risks widening and prolonging the war between the Sudanese armed forces, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) headed by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commonly known as Hemedti. The influence of outside players has loomed over events in Sudan since the overthrow of former leader Omar al-Bashir during a popular uprising five years ago. WHO SUPPORTS BURHAN? Burhan's clearest ally has been Egypt, which shares a border with…
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Jan
03
2024
By The African Mirror
Sudanese paramilitary leader Hemedti meets civilian leaders on tour

Sudanese paramilitary leader Hemedti meets civilian leaders on tour

NEWS
THE leader of Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo met with civilian pro-democracy politicians in Addis Ababa, the latest stop in a foreign tour as his troops take the upper hand in a devastating nine-month war. The meeting comes as General Dagalo, known as Hemedti, has appeared to present himself as a possible leader of a country now home to the world's largest displacement crisis, with little aid reaching millions in need amid threats of famine. He has also been received by leaders in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, which army head and Sudan's head of state Abdel…
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Nov
16
2023
By NAFISA ELTAHIR and KHALID ABDELAZIZ
Advances give Sudanese paramilitary force momentum in seven-month war

Advances give Sudanese paramilitary force momentum in seven-month war

NEWS
GAINS for Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) across western and southern parts of the country have broken months of stalemate in their war with the army, bolstering the paramilitary force's ambition and giving it a stronger hand at talks in Jeddah. The RSF's dominance in its Darfur powerbase and the advances it has made in other regions stretching eastwards to Khartoum, the capital, has prompted speculation that Sudan could suffer another split, 12 years after losing South Sudan. However, analysts and diplomats say it is unclear how the RSF could govern a breakaway territory. The force is seeking instead to…
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May
08
2023
By The African Mirror
Fighting in Khartoum as mediators seek end to Sudan conflict

Fighting in Khartoum as mediators seek end to Sudan conflict

NEWS
FIGHTING could be heard in south Khartoum as envoys from Sudan's warring parties were in Saudi Arabia for talks that international mediators hope will bring an end to a three-week-old conflict that has killed hundreds and triggered an exodus. The U.S.-Saudi initiative is the first serious attempt to end fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that has turned parts of the Sudanese capital into war zones, derailed an internationally backed plan to usher in civilian rule following years of unrest and uprisings, and created a humanitarian crisis. Saudi Arabia will allocate $100 million in humanitarian aid to…
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May
06
2023
By KHALID ABDELAZIZ
Veteran soldier leads Sudan’s army against rival general

Veteran soldier leads Sudan’s army against rival general

NEWS
GENERAL Abdel Fattah al-Burhan pledged to take Sudan to civilian rule, but after going to war last month with his former partner in a military coup, that looks like a distant promise. As his warplanes rain strikes on the capital and his troops battle the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of rival general Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, Burhan has shown no inclination to compromise. "There is no other option but the military solution," he said five days into fighting that he was believed to be initially directing from a presidential guesthouse near the airport. The war comes after Burhan…
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May
04
2023
By The African Mirror
Explainer: Sudan’s conflict: Who’s backing the rival commanders?

Explainer: Sudan’s conflict: Who’s backing the rival commanders?

NEWS
IVANA SEKULARAC and ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC MILITARY rivals locked in a conflict that erupted in Sudan on April 15 both courted foreign backing in the years leading up to the fighting. That support could now influence the course of the power struggle between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commonly known as Hemedti, as well as efforts to stop the violence. The conflict has brought open warfare to Sudan's capital Khartoum and sparked new unrest in the western region of Darfur, displacing hundreds of thousands of people within Sudan and sending 100,000…
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May
03
2023
By AIDAN LEWIS
What is happening in Sudan? Fighting in Khartoum explained

What is happening in Sudan? Fighting in Khartoum explained

NEWS
A conflict in Sudan that erupted on April 15 has killed hundreds of people, driven more than 100,000 to flee across the borders and displaced hundreds of thousands inside the country where many already relied on international aid before fighting began. WHAT TRIGGERED THE VIOLENCE? Tension had been building for months between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which together toppled a civilian government in an October 2021 coup. The friction was brought to a head by an internationally-backed plan to launch a new transition with civilian parties. A final deal was due to be signed in early April, on…
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May
02
2023
By AIDAN LEWIS and TOM PERRY
Analysis: Sudan risks long conflict as entrenched rivals struggle for control

Analysis: Sudan risks long conflict as entrenched rivals struggle for control

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
SUDAN'S warring factions are locked in a conflict that two weeks of fighting shows neither can easily win, raising the spectre of a drawn-out war between an agile paramilitary force and a better-equipped army that could destabilise a fragile region. Even with hundreds of people killed and the capital Khartoum turned into a war zone, there has been little sign of compromise between army commander Abdul-Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), commonly known as Hemedti. Foreign mediators have struggled to arrest the slide to war: a series of ceasefires brokered by the United States and others…
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Apr
20
2023
By The African Mirror
Khartoum’s fearful residents hunker down amid fierce street fighting

Khartoum’s fearful residents hunker down amid fierce street fighting

NEWS
KHALID ABDELAZIZ and NAFISA ELTAHIR RESIDENTS in an affluent district of Khartoum feared there would be trouble when they found their new neighbour was a commander from a paramilitary force that protesters blamed for cracking down on them in the past. Those concerns proved well-founded this week when people were forced to hunker down in their homes as gunfire, shelling and airstrikes raged across the city in a fierce fight for power between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). "We knew a day like this would come," said Motasim, who lives a few buildings from Abdelrahim Dagalo, deputy leader of the RSF, the…
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Mar
04
2022
By The African Mirror
Hemedti says Sudan should be open to naval base accord with Russia, or others

Hemedti says Sudan should be open to naval base accord with Russia, or others

NEWS
SUDAN'S deputy head of state said his country had no problem with Russia or any other country opening a naval base on its Red Sea coast, provided it posed no threat to national security. General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commonly known as Hemedti, deputy head of Sudan's sovereign council, was speaking on arrival in Khartoum following a trip to Moscow that began on February 23, the eve of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "We have 730 kilometres along the Red Sea. If any country wants to open a base and it is in our interests and doesn't threaten our national security we…
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