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...

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...