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...
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The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' have intensified efforts to take control of El Fasher the capital of North Darfur by building 31 kilometres of fortification around the city to prevent people from leaving...
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Mansour is the UAE's National Security Advisor and his government is the main foreign backer of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) which are trying at horrendous human cost to wrest control of El Fasher the capital of North Darfur...
It has also underwritten a parallel civilian government in western Sudan – led by RSF commander Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo known as ‘Hemeti' – effectively partitioning the country...
On 14 August – Sudan's Army Day – SAF Commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan delivered one of his harshest speeches against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo – ‘Hemeti' – reiterating his refusal to negotiate and calling for their destruction...
Discussions centred on strengthening the Islamist military component to influence the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) under General Abdel Fattah al Burhan ‘without appearing divisive' – a difficult balance while the war against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' remains deadlocked...
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The RSF announced the creation of a 15-member ‘government of peace and unity' based in Darfur on 2 August naming Mohamed Hassan al-Ta'ayshi as prime minister and RSF leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' as head of a new presidential council...
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The dual use airstrip at Amdjarass in eastern Chad suited UAE officials as they delivered arms and munitions there toGeneral Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti''s RSF fighters while insisting to the outside world – though no one believed them – that they were delivering humanitarian aid...
In parallel to SAF's attempt to sponsor a civilian regime RSF Commander Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' presided over disputes within the Sudan Founding Alliance (Tasis) then announced it had agreed to appoint him as Chairman and Abdel Aziz al-Hilu as his deputy...
The exchange of drones between Gen Burhan's SAF and the Rapid Support Forces under Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' in April and May which killed Emirati and Turkish technicians on each side seems to have been a turning point...
This year Haftar rekindled ties between his militia which he calls the Libyan National Army (LNA) and Sudanese General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti''s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia to open a route for arms deliveries from the United Arab Emirates into North Darfur...
RSF Commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' sent a clear and explosive message: no strategic facility was beyond his forces' reach...
Abu Dhabi needs to diversify its supply routes to bolster the Rapid Support Forces of Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' in Sudan's civil war...
InvestigationOver the past year UN experts have been investigating sanctions-busting involving arms flows to both the RSF commanded by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) under Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan...