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He met the commander Rapid Support Forces Sudanese Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo (My praiseYesterday, Monday, Sudanese politicians opposed to the army in Addis Ababa, which was his last stop on a foreign tour.
The meeting comes after the leaders of Uganda, Ethiopia and Djibouti received Hemedti during this tour, in a move that angered the head of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan Which he described as hostile actions.
Neighborhood resistance committees, pro-democracy and anti-army, accused the Rapid Support Forces of killing hundreds of civilians and carrying out kidnapping and looting crimes in Wad Madani, the capital. Gezira State, Which it took control of late last month.
In a speech he delivered at a meeting yesterday, Monday, with the head of the Coordination of Democratic Civilian Forces, Abdullah Hamdok, Hemedti apologized for the violations in Al-Jazira State and said that the Rapid Support Command is working to arrest the “unlawful people.”
He added, “We reiterate our call to the regional and international community to think optimistically about our conflict and struggle… in view of the new future of Sudan after achieving peace.”
Hamdok, who was prime minister, was ousted from power in 2021 when the army and the Rapid Support Forces led a coup that ended Sudan’s democratic transition after the former president was removed. Omar al-Bashir In 2019.
Al-Burhan said, in a speech he delivered late last Sunday evening, that those who provided support to the Rapid Support Forces were complicit in their crimes.
Referring to previous talks held by the army with the Rapid Support Forces in Jeddah, Al-Burhan said that the path towards ending the war would be with the withdrawal of the Rapid Support Forces from Sudanese cities and Al-Jazira State, and the return of the looted property.
The two leaders accepted an invitation to the meeting from the Intergovernmental Authority for the Development of East African States (IGADAl-Burhan was scheduled to meet with Hemedti last Thursday in Djibouti, but the meeting was postponed, according to what the Sudan News Agency (SUNA) announced.
The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said at the time that it had received a memorandum from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Djibouti, stating that Hemedti was unable to arrive in Djibouti to hold the meeting, for technical reasons.
The ministry added in a statement that coordination will be made again to hold the meeting during the next month.
