For people who dont know who is General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, He is the head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) . General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, a man close to the Isralies,UAE, Saudis and Russians is considered the real “strong man” of the country after he arrested former President Omar al Bashir.
How he became a War Lord then General
Coming from a Chadian Arab clan of the Rizeigat tribe, originally from Darfur, at the outbreak of war in Darfur, in 2003, Dagalo assumed command of the infamous Janjaweed militias (“demons on horseback”), who were responsible for heinous war crimes and against humanity, and became head of the RSF from 2013, when they were established as part of a restructuring of the former Janjaweed militias.
November 2017, Dagalo used his men to take control of gold mines in the Darfur region, which made him one of the richest people in Sudan. ” Billions”
His brother Abdul Rahim, number two of the RSF, heads the company Al Junaid (or Al Gunade), involved in the extraction and trade of gold in Sudan.
Two RSF uses two front companies, the small information technology and security company GSK that is based in Sudan, and Tradive General Trading LLC, based in the UAE. Tradive is funnelling tens of millions of dollars in to and out of the RSF, at least partly in order to obscure the involvement of the militia. Hemeti’s brother El Joney Hamdan Dagalo is a director and an ultimate beneficial owner of Tradive.
The leaked RSF spreadsheet published by El Bashoum also reveals how the RSF bought a fleet of almost one thousand Toyota pick-up trucks – easily converted into highly mobile ‘technicals’ (armed desert vehicles) by welding mounted machine guns on to the back. These vehicles have been used by the militia to suppress popular uprisings around the country for over a decade.
A leaked RSF spreadsheet describes how the militia received over 150 million UAE Dirham ($40 million) ‘for technical support’ from an unknown source, and used over 111 million Dirham ($30 million) of that to purchase the vehicles and communications equipment from dealers in the UAE.
In 2015 it was Dagalo himself who sent – in agreement with the Sudanese army – his men to Yemen to fight alongside the Saudi-led coalition, a choice that allowed him to forge very close ties with the Gulf powers. Dagalo’s other iron ally is Russia, in particular the Wagner paramilitary group.
In March 2022, the US charge d’affaires in Khartoum and the envoys of the United Kingdom and Norway – components of the so-called Troika for Sudan – strongly and openly condemned the presence and operations of the Wagner group in Sudan, mainly linked to disinformation and illegal gold mining (directly controlled by Dagalo and his family).
It is also worth remembering that “Hemeti” himself was in Moscow on the day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, February 24, to discuss with the Sudanese authorities the project to build a Russian military base which should be built in Port Sudan on the Red Sea.
Hemeti sits at the apex of a ‘paramilitary-industrial complex’. He controls both a large powerful military force, and an independent source of wealth”.
Omar Isaak