Dubaiba's office has repeatedly argued that the flow of unmonitored Libyan funds channelled through irregular transactions and the black market provides an easy and deniable means of financing these deployments from Libya into the Sahel region and to fund Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Haftar-ally General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti'...
Chad has become the key conduit for the UAE's supply of arms and medical assistance to the Rapid Support Forces of Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' in Sudan's civil war...
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Neither Gen Burhan nor his rival RSF commander Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' would have welcomed the involvement of Hamdok and Somoud at Berlin...
The detail in a United States Treasury Department sanctions list in February that Algoney Hamdan Dagalo Musa the youngest brother of the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' held passports from both Kenya and the United Arab Emirates was hardly a coincidence...
Addis also hosts an RSF intelligence office and the paramilitary's leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' owns property in the Ethiopian capital...
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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'...