#Hemedti

[benjaminwatchworld]

Sudan failed Coup spun into a Civil War

For a while now, I have wanted to have my say on the Sudan crisis of 2023. Where I come from we have ways of referring to Sudan, and with a lot of disdain, we sometimes call it the other Sudan. When Sudan was Africa’s largest country, it developed a bad reputation amongst its neighbors. In Uganda, it backed the LRA and the ADF as it caused mayhem in the oil region, it had a border issue with…

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#2023 #Africa #al-Burhan #Hemedti #RSF #SAF #Sudan #war

[corepaedianews]

Sudan’s people toppled a dictator – despite the war they’re still working to bring about democratic change

Civilians protest in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, in December 2022. AFP via Getty Images Linda Bishai, George Washington University While Sudan’s generals have unleashed indiscriminate destruction and occupation on wide swaths of the capital, Khartoum, neighbourhood resistance committees and pro-democracy activists have stepped up to respond to the needs of citizens. They have risked their lives…

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#Abdalla Hamdok #Abdel Fattah al-Burhan #civil society organisations #Corepaedia #corepaedianews #Hemedti #Khartoum #Military rule #Omar al-Bashir #Rapid Support Forces (RSF) #Sudan #Sudan crisis #youth movements

[plitnick]

Israel Says It Should Mediate Peace in Sudan, the Sudanese People Disagree

Israel has offered to mediate the conflict raging in Sudan. This piece at Mondoweiss explains its interest, why Sudan finally and fully joining the Abraham Accords is so important to Israel, and how this whole episode is about sidelining the will of the Sudanese people, both in their fight for democracy and their solidarity with the Palestinians.

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#Abdalla Hamdok #Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan #Abraham Accords #al-Qaeda #Benjamin Netanyahu #Donald Trump #Hemedti #Hosni Mubarak #Joe Biden #Khartoum #Libya #Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo #Mohammed Morsi #Omar al-Bashir #Osama Bin Laden #Palestinians #Rapid Support Forces #Sudan #Three No&039;s #United Arab Emirates

[zvaigzdelasas]

7 Nov 23

#east-west split of the country seems possible #maybe even up to kordofan #im not sure if hemedti can take/hold Khartoum but hes trying

[hiv-live-laugh-love]

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#ok so im like very happy abt everything s africa is doing in regards to palestine and everything #but like can someone explain why the country is like hosting and shaking hands with hemedti #like isn't he and his rsf ethnically cleansing non-arab sudanese tribes in darfur #like there's a mismatch happening

[doorhine]

January 10, 2024

#keep eyes on sudan #talk about sudan #sudan #news #current events #twitter #article

[intersectionalpraxis]

"SUDANESE MOTHER’S DESPAIR AFTER 9 MONTHS OF WAR"

"You can hear the hopelessness in the voice of Batoul, one of millions of displaced Sudanese as civil war rages in the Sahelian country. However, the mother says she still loves Sudan, and she hopes her children will have a better future than the reality to which she has resigned her generation." "Wad Medani, where Batoul is currently located, emerged as a critical humanitarian hub in April, when fighting broke out between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). It hosts hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people escaping the conflict in the capital of Khartoum."

Now in its ninth month, the war has left half of Sudan’s 48 million people requiring aid. According to the United Nations, more than 7.3 million people have fled their homes. Sudan recently bypassed the Democratic Republic of the Congo to take the unfortunate distinction of having the biggest internal displacement crisis in the world." "Meanwhile, hunger is rising. And, more than 13,000 people have been killed. Plus, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project reports a 56 per cent increase in explosions and remote violence in Khartoum in the weeks between 25 November and 5 January, compared to the six weeks prior. Young boys reportedly have been conscripted as child soldiers, while monitors on the ground say young girls have been forced into prostitution." "Previous attempts to negotiate an end to fighting have failed. Most recently, Sudan’s government suspended ties with the East African regional bloc, Intergovernmental Authority on Development, because it invited RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (known as ‘Hemedti’) to a 18 January meeting in Uganda." "As the two sides battle it out, innocent civilians like Batoul are sandwiched in the middle, paying the highest price."

#feminist #feminism #social justice #sudan #eyes on sudan #sudan crisis #sudan genocide #keep eyes on sudan #free sudan #khartoum #violence against women #human rights violations #sudanese #liberate sudan #rsf #genocide #human rights

[onesettleronebullet]

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) will continue to expand their military operations to other regions in Sudan until the war stops, a close aide to General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo has said. Gen. Daglo, whose forces have been at war with the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan since April, has been touring African countries on his first visit abroad of conflict. He already visited Uganda, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya as well as south Africa and is currently in Rwanda. Speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Thursday, Nizar Saeed Ahmed, a director in Daglo’s office said the RSF will continue to expand its occupations to seize new areas in Sudan as long as the war continues. Saeed said the matter of attacking a specific area or defending it is up to the military forces present in the field estimation of what they deem appropriate. He claimed that their forces control a large geographical area of Sudan, with a large number of states under their control, some of which are besieged, except for only five states. Saeed explained that the reason for their attack on the safe states at a time when several countries are leading negotiations initiatives and efforts to stop the war and bring peace in Sudan is because of the Sudanese Armed Forces deliberate attacks on their positions and hurling unarmed citizens with explosive barrels. He said the action reflects the army’s lack of concern for the safety of civilians and the violation of what was agreed upon in the first Jeddah round of talks.

05/01/2024

#radio tamazuj #sudan #die nuus

[lookninjas]

You know, it's interesting to me that I saw an article as I was scrolling through my dash this morning that (supposedly) blames the U.S. for being deeply involved in a genocide in Sudan. You might think from such a description that we'd be talking about U.S. military aid or boots on the ground or the CIA or something like that, and not just the Trump administration tanking our diplomatic efforts and Biden's administration not making the best decisions to right the ship. You might also think that such an article would not include a section like this:

David Satterfield, who replaced Feltman as US special envoy to the Horn of Africa and who has since resigned, said that Washington did not have anything but bad choices in Sudan, and therefore had to strike deals with the Sudanese military. According to Satterfield, “If there is ever an opportunity to return to a path towards restoration of a civilian-led government, you’re going to have to talk to the military then as well.

You also might not think that such an article would outright reference Russian involvement in Sudan, which it does.

Russia believes that its strong presence in Sudan will augment its status in Africa and the Middle East, which is considered an American redoubt. Since 2014, and with Moscow’s aspirations to exploit African mineral riches, the Kremlin has strengthened its ties to Sudan in order to ameliorate western sanctions following its invasion of Crimea, sanctions that became even harsher after its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.16 In 2017, former Sudanese President al-Bashir visited Russia and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two countries agreed to establish a holding company run by the paramilitary Wagner Group to mine gold ore. Russia also signed a 25-year lease in December 2020 to build a military base at Port Sudan on the Red Sea that can receive nuclear-powered ships. It was also interesting that Hemedti headed an official delegation to Moscow on the eve of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

And while we're talking about Russian involvement in Sudan, which is why I'm here in the first place, it's really really really interesting to me that this article was phrased as proof that the U.S. was heavily involved in genocide in Sudan, despite the fact that the Russian Wagner group (accused of war crimes in Ukraine) has been providing missiles and military training to the Sudanese paramilitary group RSF while smuggling gold out of Sudan to fund their own activities in Ukraine. Fun fact about the Wagner group: They're also heavily involved in social media misinformation campaigns.

Wasn't there a Russian misinformation campaign on tumblr leading up to the Presidential elections in 2016?

And despite the "mysterious" death of Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash (a short time after his aborted march on Moscow), Russia is still working on bringing the Wagner organization back under their control. Because, you know, they still have that whole invasion of Ukraine they're working on. An invasion of Ukraine that would sure be a whole lot easier for them if they could convince Americans to stop providing military support to Ukraine. They're already doing pretty nicely with the Republican party, but the Democrats (and the American left in general) have been harder to get on-side.

It does kind of feel like tying American military involvement in other countries to active genocide would be a great way to discourage people on the American left from supporting continued involvement in Ukraine, wouldn't it?

We're slightly less than a year away from the next American presidential election. There is no reason to believe that the Russian propaganda machine, which has already been operating at full blast since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, is going to slow down. This quote from the linked article is particularly chilling:

A particular challenge is that people tend to spread falsehoods “farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth”; this is particularly the case for false political news (Vosoughi, Roy and and Aral, 2018[7]). For example, one study found that tweets containing false information were 70% more likely to be retweeted than accurate tweets (Brown, 2020[8]). Another study found that false information on Facebook attracts six times more engagement than factual posts (Edelson, 2021[9]). In addition, feedback loops between the platforms and traditional media can serve to further amplify disinformation, magnifying the risk that disinformation can be used to deliberately influence public conversations, as well as confuse and discourage the public.

I think it's important to remember, especially now, that we are capable of spreading misinformation. The article about U.S. involvement in Sudan wasn't placed on there by an algorithm. This is fucking tumblr. That was one of my mutuals. Because they're concerned about American military intervention and they're against genocide and it sounded bad and they were upset and they didn't think to read the article. Because they didn't spend the time of Prigozhin's march on Moscow mainlining information on the Wagner group the way that I did, so they didn't go "Hey, Sudan? Wait a minute --" the way I did. Because misinformation that isn't targeted at your group is designed to be easy to spot, so you'll think that the misinformation that is targeted to your group will also be easy to spot, and it fucking isn't.

Because this culture of "If you care, you'll share" has gotten people to click that reblog button without thinking twice about it.

Don't keep falling for it. You don't have to spend an hour digging up sources and pulling out quotes for a ten-note post the way that I did. I'm like this as a human. It's fine if you're not. But if you're not even going to click the link to read the article and actually read it critically (or if there's no sources at all except a twitter screenshot, which I've also seen quite a bit of), then don't reblog it. Save it as a draft for when you have time to do the research, or just don't do anything with it at all. You're not obligated.

And if you have the relevant background to spot the disinfo, I mean -- again, look, you're not obligated to take that hour and search those sources. Even I don't do this all the time. It's hard, it's frustrating, and it will not spread the way the disinfo does. I'm gonna see that genocide post like five times at least on my dash, and I'm probably going to see it at least once from someone who has at least liked this post (if not reblogged it as well). But if you can. If you have the energy and the time. Try to put a little info out there. It might help someone.

That's all. Be good. Be skeptical.

#disinformation #misinformation #russia #wagner group #sudan #ukraine #like i don't have mad love for the us military industrial complex either #but that doesn't mean i'm going to blindly support russian misinfo campaigns designed at distracting from their own atrocities #we can suck and they can suck we are both capable of sucking #but the us military is under the control of biden and russia's is under the control of putin and they're honestly not comparable right now #like it's not even close #so try not to fall for it #we all fail at that sometimes but try

[mapsontheweb]

 Military vs Rapid Support Forces clashes in Sudan.

Why is there a fighting in Sudan?

Fighting broke out after bitter disagreements between al-Burhan and Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, about the planned integration of the RSF into the regular Army – a key condition for a final deal aimed at ending a crisis that has been continuing since the 2021 coup.

Who are the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitaries fighting Sudan’s Army?

The Rapid Support Forces can trace its origins to the notorious Janjaweed militias, which in the 2000s helped Sudan’s Army crush a rebellion in the western region of Darfur. While the military had an air force and heavy weapons, the Janjaweed provided on-the-ground fighters in isolated areas.

How large is the R.S.F.?

Experts and Western officials estimate the R.S.F. to number between 70,000 and 150,000 fighters. Its members include former military and intelligence officers.

#maps #sudan #2023

[edwordsmyth]

I'd be more impressed with South Africa's legal efforts on behalf of Palestine if they weren't simultaneously warmly hosting RSF leader Hemedti, who's orchestrating ongoing genocidal atrocities in Sudan.

#sudan #south africa #palestine #& maybe we should get past the idea that anti-colonial solidarity looks like submitting claims to the authority of a european “world” court

[adropofhumanity]

the heads of the rival factions in sudan, burhan and hemedti, will meet to discuss ending sudan war. 10,000 people have been killed in this war.

#sudan #free sudan

[sophia-zofia]

1-UAE!!

Under the guise of saving refugees, the United Arab Emirates is running an elaborate covert operation to back one side in Sudan’s spiraling war supplying powerful weapons and drones, treating injured fighters and airlifting the most serious cases to one of its military hospitals, according to a dozen current and former officials from the United States, Europe and several African countries.

The operation is based at an airfield and a hospital in a remote town across the Sudanese border in Chad, where cargo planes from the Emirates have been landing on a near-daily basis since June, according to satellite imagery and the officials, who spoke on the basis of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.

Despite strained Sudan-UАЕ relations, gold shipments flowed freely from Sudan to Dubаi, with exports facing no obstacles and operating with official approval in Port Sudan. Political tensions didn't disrupt the lucrative trade, which continued despite the December 2023 expulsion of diplomats and accusations of smuggling.

2- Russia (Wagner group)

The Russian mercenary group Wagner has been supplying Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces with missiles to aid their fight against the country’s army, Sudanese and regional diplomatic sources have told the CNN.

The sources said the surface-to-air missiles have significantly buttressed RSF paramilitary fighters and their leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo as he battles for power with Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s military ruler and the head of its armed forces.

(Reports years ago claimed the hemedti smuggles gold to Russia)

3- Libya

The eastern Libya strongman, Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifah Haftar, has actively backed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against the Sudanese military and armed forces in the ongoing fighting in Khartoum and its surrounding environs.

Haftar calculates that an RSF victory in the Sudan power struggle would secure valuable trade and smuggling routes through Sudan.

By supporting the RSF, Haftar is aligned with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Russian mercenary Wagner Group.

4- Chad

Chadian sources said that the Chadian transitional government is building a new military base or depot 6-7 kilometers north of the city of Abéché in Wadaday state, with full funding from the UAE to support the Rapid Support Militia.

Mobilization campaigns and movements are now underway to prevent this criminal operation carried out by the Chadian government against citizens, with funding from the UAE, to destroy Sudan.

5- Ukraine

In September 2023, CNN reported that Ukrainian special services were behind a series of drone strikes and a ground operation near Sudan's capital, Khartoum, which targeted Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a militia backed by the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary outfit.

6- Israel

There has been evidence that Israel is also sending supplies to the RSF. Israel wants to curb Iran's expanding influence in the region, while halting human and arms smuggling routes from Sudan to Gaza. Better relations with Sudan would also enhance Israel's ties with other African countries, helping it to gain access to African markets, especially after the suspension of Israel's observer status in the African Union.

Also using Sudan’s war for cheap propaganda and diverting attention from their atrocities in Gaza by claiming that Hamas Is tied to the RSF. Hemedti tried to organize a secret meeting with officials from the Israeli Mossad without the knowledge of the government and the Sudanese army in Khartoum,on January 2022, but he was forced to inform the army of the meeting in the end, after Israel announced.

7- Iran

Media reports said Iran has supplied Sudan's army with combat drones. The army has not denied the claims. Later, Sudan's Foreign Minister visited Tehran and held talks with high ranking officials as part of the two countries' efforts to restore their diplomatic relations.

8-The EU

The European Union has been accused of "hiding" the impact of its funding of the Sudanese government and its paramilitary forces as part of a programme to stem the flow of migrants from Africa to Europe. Though the EU claims it provides no funding to the government, activists and researchers say otherwise, arguing the organisation's migration initiatives also benefit, at least indirectly, the country's notorious Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.

9- The US

During the transitional period, there were long bread lines, and sometimes people had to wait for days to get gas. And that could have been avoided if:

1) The U.S was quicker in getting Sudan off the state sponsor of terror list which blocked it from much of the global economy. It was particularly insulting that they demanded that the only way to do that was to 'normalise' relations with Israel.

2) If the U.S wasn't insisting that the government (which arose because the Sudanese people overthrew Bashir's regime) pay reparations to the U.S for an attack that they had nothing to do with.

3) If the IMF didn't force Sudan to cut fuel and bread subsidies to get debt relief after Bashir's overthrow. One of the triggers for the 2018 revolution was that Bashir was also forced to do this. It made life miserable.

10- Saudi Arabia

The Saudis and Emiratis have turned to battle-hardened forces from Sudan with combat experience in Darfur and other parts of their country. In fact, 8,000-14,000 Sudanese mercenaries including child soldiers between the ages of 13 and 17.

Many of the Sudanese fighters in Yemen come from the Janjaweed (armed horsemen) RSF militias made up of ethnic Arabs from western Sudan, eastern Chad, and the Central African Republic (CAR).

#sudan #rsf #rapid support forces #uae #united arab emirates #russia #wagner group #libya #chad #ukraine #israel #iran #european union #united states #saudi arabia #genocide

[zvaigzdelasas]

5 Jan 24

[female-malice]

And what are your thoughts on South Africa's case against Israel?

Genocide is a deliberate campaign to systematically eradicate a population.

Far right extremist Knesset members use genocidal language. That genocidal language is denounced and criticized by other Knesset members and most Israelis. Hamas also uses genocidal language. Gaza is governed by an authoritarian terror regime so there is no official opposition voice against genocidal language. That's the situation in the political and civilian arenas.

What about the military arena?

For the IDF, their first priority is eliminating Hamas. Their second priority is to protect the lives of civilians in Israel. Their third priority is to limit IDF casualties. Limiting civilian casualties in Gaza is not a priority.

For IQB and PIJ, their first priority is eliminating the IDF. Their second priority is to torture and kill Jewish civilians. Their third priority is to limit IQB and PIJ casualties. Limiting civilian casualties in Gaza is not a priority.

Apathy towards civilian death is not genocide. Genocide is a passion for civilian death. However, I don't believe in tragedy hierarchies. I don't believe one is worse than the other. Death is death. But there should be specific words for each type of tragedy. If a military is apathetic towards civilian death and you charge them with genocide, they can defend themselves. But if you charge them with a failure to protect civilian lives, they can't defend themselves.

And what about South Africa? They're actively legitimizing Hemedti. So genocide is not a moral problem for them. It's a political issue that they raise selectively based on geopolitical interests.

[doorhine]

"Like many other former rebels who have needlessly pushed their people into armed conflict while pretending to be working for peace, because continuous fighting helped them obtain or maintain political power, Hemedti shows newfound but questionable commitment to advance an unimpeded constitutional order and avoid a return to war sometime in the future.

As a rebel leader whose primary motivation for fighting appears to be accumulating personal power rather than improving the living conditions of his people, Hemedti is more similar to Jonas Savimbi, the founder of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), than any other political figure in Africa.

Following a power struggle that broke out soon after Angola gained independence from Portugal in November 1975, Savimbi waged a 27-year intermittent civil war against the ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).

The cold-war conflict, in which Russia supported the MPLA and the US, alongside apartheid South Africa, backed UNITA, killed one million people and made four million others homeless...."

#keep eyes on sudan #talk about sudan #sudan #news #current events #al jazeera #article