The group’s success on the battlefield against the Sudanese armed forces is riven by Hemedti’s personal aspirations bolstered by regional players that see him as a new ally in a future Sudanese state.
After his putsch failed, the paramilitary leader has relaunched an ethnic war in Darfur as supply lines tighten, When the war of the generals broke out on 15 April, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo Hemeti , the commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), had clear objectives: to thwart the plan to subsume his paramilitary force under the command of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) within two years, and to do so his fighters would capture General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and other senior military officers.