General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' number two in Sudan's ruling Sovereign Council is under pressure from all sides as his relations deteriorate with the military increasingly powerful Islamists and the Darfuri signatories of the Juba Peace Agreement...

Meanwhile deputy head of the ruling Sovereign Council General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' has focused on Russia standing alongside it despite the Ukraine invasion...

At the junta's core are the persisting tensions between head of state General Abdel Fattah al Burhan commander of the SAF and his deputy Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' commander of the RSF...

The junta in Sudan has clearly tried to use this crisis to send a message to the West with General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' and a ministerial delegation led by the minister of finance Jibril Ibrahim travelling to Moscow just before Russian troops entered Ukraine...

Complicating matters is the mutual distrust trust between the junta leader General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and his deputy Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...

Meanwhile the Russians are trying to make connections between the Bangui government and Sudan's Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' head of the rebranded Janjaweed the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and number two in the military regime in Khartoum...

The retired officers all drawn from the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and not any of the militias financed under the ousted National Congress Party regime criticises Burhan saying that his close alliance with Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' Commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) the rebranded Janjaweed militia is undermining the cohesion of the armed forces as popular opposition is growing...

As Generals Abdel Fattah al Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' try unsuccessfully to cow the revolutionaries on the street – at least another five protestors have been shot dead in the first week of the year – security conditions in the regions notably Darfur are deteriorating sharply...

The crackdown by the security forces involved military intelligence the police and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces – led by Burhan's deputy at the Sovereignty Council Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' (Dispatches 1/11/21 Gen...

Mufaddal has close relations with Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' deputy head of the Sovereignty Council and leader of the Rapid Support Forces militia...