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The conclusions of the UN report that atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces militia in and around El Fasher bear the ‘hallmarks of genocide' will increase pressure on the international community to treat the RSF and its leader Lt-Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemeti with particularly severe sanctions...
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Most egregious is Sudan where the UAE continues to arm the Rapid Support Forces under General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' whose business empire is headquartered in Dubai...
* After the UAE and Saudi Arabia clashed in South Yemen at the end of December both stepped up support for rival factions in Sudan and Somalia: Riyadh backing General Abdel Fattah Al Burhan's Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) in Khartoum and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's government in Mogadishu while Abu Dhabi backs the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' which controls much of western Sudan and has lobbied for international recognition of Somaliland which broke away from Somalia in 1991...
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Though Riyadh's support for Burhan has been modest in comparison to the UAE's relationships with RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemeti it has promised to help finance the rebuilding of Khartoum...
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The UAE is accused by UN experts and in serial reports by independent media organisations of supplying weapons and mercenaries to the militia under General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti'...
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The US has taken stiffer action against Sudan's belligerents than the European Union and United Kingdom with Trump's predecessor Joe Biden sanctioning RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti'...
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On 20 November European Union foreign ministers moved closer to taking a side in Sudan's civil war by imposing sanctions on the deputy leader of the Rapid Support Forces Lieutenant General Abdul Rahim Dagalo brother of RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti'...
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General Abdel Fattah al Burhan's Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) are under pressure to agree to the United States' plans for a humanitarian ceasefire after the Rapid Support Forces of Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' welcomed the plan...
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Yet mass killings and brutal reprisals against civilians including arbitrary executions and rape have hardened international hostility towards the RSF and its leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti'...
The dictates of supporting General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' and his Rapid Support Forces in the Sudan civil war have obliged MBZ to try to establish new supply routes through Uganda Kenya Chad Central African Republic Libya Ethiopia and Puntland...
The dictates of supporting General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' and his Rapid Support Forces in the Sudan civil war have obliged MBZ to try to establish new supply routes through Uganda Kenya Chad Central African Republic Libya Ethiopia and Puntland...