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19.02.2025 - 10:22 [ New York Times ]

Sudanese Paramilitaries Announce Plan for Breakaway Government

The group’s deputy leader, Abdul Rahim Dagalo, who is under American sanctions, was greeted by hundreds of cheering people as he arrived at the elaborate event, held at a state-owned convention center in downtown Nairobi.

Mr. Dagalo did not speak at the event, and a promised charter meant to pave the way for a parallel government in R.S.F.-controlled areas was not signed. Officials said they needed another three days to negotiate the terms of the charter with Abdel Aziz al-Hilu, the leader of another Sudanese rebel faction, who sat beside Mr. Dagalo.

19.02.2025 - 10:21 [ Middle East Eye ]

Sudan‘s RSF massacres 433 people as it forms parallel ‘peace government’

The latest massacre comes as senior RSF leaders and allied figures arrived in the Kenyan capital to set the wheels in motion for the formation of a parallel government in areas the paramilitary group controls.

Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy commander of the RSF and brother of its leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (commonly known as Hemeti), arrived in Nairobi on Tuesday for the two-day conference.

A political charter “for the government of peace and unity”, as it’s being dubbed, is set to be signed on Wednesday.

13.11.2024 - 18:41 [ United Nations ]

Sudan: Allies of warring generals ‘enabling the slaughter,’ Security Council hears

Ms. DiCarlo condemned not only the RSF attacks but also the indiscriminate airstrikes by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in civilian-populated areas such as the capital Khartoum and El Fasher, a major city in North Darfur hosting thousands of internally displaced which has been besieged for months by the RSF.

“Both warring parties bear responsibility for this violence,” she stressed.

She added that as the rainy season nears its end, both sides continue to escalate their military operations, recruit new fighters and intensify their attacks, fuelled by “considerable” external support and a steady flow of arms.

“To put it bluntly, certain purported allies of the parties are enabling the slaughter in Sudan. This is unconscionable, it is illegal, and it must end.”

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The situation in Sudan has been in a freefall since the war erupted last April.

It is now the world’s worst displacement crisis, with more than 11 million people driven from their homes – nearly three million among them into neighbouring countries as refugees, according to the UN relief coordinating office, OCHA.

The war has also unleashed a severe hunger crisis, affecting millions.

01.05.2023 - 10:01 [ theGuardian.com ]

A war for our age: how the battle for Sudan is being fuelled by forces far beyond its borders

In this conflict frontiers have no significance, control of resources is the primary prize, with forces arising in borderlands seeking their revenge on once contemptuous metropolitan elites. Trafficking networks across swathes of desert are extensions of the “battlespace”, and almost innumerable actors with an axe to grind or an agenda to pursue vastly outnumber those who seek to stop the fighting.

All of this happens in a shadowy penumbra defined by backroom deals, obscure alignments of interests, brutal realpolitik and disinformation. The poor and the weak and the unarmed suffer most, as ever.

19.04.2023 - 11:55 [ rferl.org ]

Sudan Slips Into Chaos. Russia Lurks In The Background.

(April 18, 2023)

Last December, under pressure from Western nations and other African countries, the two agreed to a framework deal that would eventually transition the government back to civilian control.

That led to uncertainty among Sudan’s powerbrokers and civilian leaders, and rising tensions between military factions until on the morning of April 15, fighting broke out between units loyal to Burhan and Hemedti’s RSF.

17.04.2023 - 09:24 [ Al Jazeera ]

Egyptian soldiers captured in Sudan to be returned, says RSF

Egypt has confirmed that a group of its soldiers has been captured in Sudan as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has said it would cooperate in returning them.

The RSF, now embroiled in deadly armed conflict with the country’s army for a second day, on Saturday afternoon released a video showing Egyptian troops that it said had “surrendered” themselves in Merowe, located between the Sudanese capital Khartoum and the border with Egypt.

17.04.2023 - 08:30 [ Martin Plaut / Nitter ]

One aspect of the current Sudan conflict between the RSF and the army is intriguing. Why did the RSF surround the Egyptian troops at the airport in Merowe? What were the Egyptians doing there? And did they have a role in the Tigray war?

(15.04.2023)

17.04.2023 - 07:48 [ Sudan Tribune ]

SRF arrest Egyptian military in northern Sudan air base

Numerous reports have been circulating about the Egyptian military’s presence at the Marawi Airport, which served for joint military exercises for the two armies.

The RSF explained that they deployed its troops in Merowe to prevent the Egyptian armed forces from holding the airport and eventually striking its forces.

17.04.2023 - 07:44 [ Sudan Tribune ]

Fighting broke out in Sudan between national army and RSF militiamen

(15.04.2023)

“The rebel Rapid Support Forces spread lies about attack on their positions to cover up their insurgency,” he further vowed that the army will fight them until to get rid of the rebellion.

Military escalations between the army and the RSF began on Wednesday when the RSF elements arrived in the northern Sudan town claiming that Egypt massed military plans to attack them.