Opinion: How Putin’s ‘cat’s paw’ sunk into Sudan

Posted on AllSides April 26th, 2023
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On the day before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, a top general from Sudan was visiting Moscow. Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo – known as Hemedti – had already made a name for himself leading one of the so-called Janjaweed militias that helped carry out a genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region decades earlier.

Until last week, Dagalo was also one of the two military men leading a Sudanese government that was meant to be working its way to a democratic transition.

By the time he went to Russia last year, Dagalo and his militia, Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), were already the primary beneficiaries of involvement in Sudan by the Wagner...

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/26/opinions/putin-russia-wagner-sudan-crisis-ghitis/index.html

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