This time Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was present...

HIGH-STAKES POKER IN KHARTOUM It has fallen to Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' deputy leader of the junta to spell out how Sudan's military might retaliate if international organisations and Western nations persist with sanctions imposed after the coup on 25 October...

Tensions between the military and the Rapid Support Forces under General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' on one side and radical civilian critics of them on the other escalated after the failed coup on 21 September...

Neither General Abdul Fatteh al Burhan nor Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti' have had much exposure beyond Egypt and the Gulf States which might explain their miscalculations...

Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...

It may not be Burhan however from whom Hamdok has most to fear but rather his deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti'...

This is also useful for General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' born in Chad and Commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) an incarnation of the Janjaweed militias which rampaged across Darfur two decades ago...

Although the Arab population is six times larger than the Zaghawa they have only one General Bichara Issa Djadallah who is a Rizeigat/Mahariya and a cousin of Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' Deputy Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Military Council...

Egypt has been quick to back Sudan announcing its full support for Sudan's right to protect the security of its territory; the head of Egypt's General Intelligence Service Gen Abbas Kamel met Gen Burhan and Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' in Khartoum on 4 January to discuss Ethio-Sudan relations and GERD and a week later Lt Gen Shams el Din Kabashi a member of Sudan's Sovereign Council briefed President Abdel Fattah el Sisi in Cairo...