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Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Arabic: محمد حمدان دقلو, romanized: Muḥammad Ḥamdān Daqlū, born 1974 or 1975), generally referred to mononymously as Hemedti [1] (Arabic: حميدتي, romanized: Ḥamīdtī; also spelled Hemetti [7] or Hemeti [8]; meaning "little Mohamed"), [9] is a Sudanese military officer and the current head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
A civil war between two major rival factions of the military government of Sudan began during Ramadan on 15 April 2023. The two opponent factions consist of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies (collectively the Janjaweed coalition) under the Janjaweed leader Hemedti. [24]
Members of the Sudanese Writers Union have suggested that the destruction of Sudan's cultural heritage has been carried out with the intention of erasing the country's history. [12] [13] The International Council of Museums condemned attacks on museums and cautioned about the likelihood of objects being trafficked as a result of the conflict. [14]
Gordon Memorial College was an educational institution in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It was built between 1899 and 1902 as part of Lord Kitchener 's wide-ranging educational reforms. Named for General Charles George Gordon of the British army, who was killed during the Mahdi uprising in 1885, it was officially opened on 8 November 1902 by Kitchener ...
The SLM and the GSLF launched an incursion into Chad from Darfur, resulting in clashes with the Chadian Army in the vicinity of the tri-border area with Sudan and Libya. Six Sudanese soldiers were killed while 13 others were injured. Three vehicles were also destroyed while two Sudanese commanders were captured and detained at Amdjarass. [83]
Sudanese Military Academy (Arabic: الكلية الحربية السودانية) is one of the military colleges in Sudan and the first military college established in Africa. The Military College at Wadi Sayyidna , near Omdurman , has been Sudan's primary source of officer training since it opened in 1948.
Abdul Wahid Mohamed al-Nur is a lawyer, born in 1968 in Zalingei, Darfur, Sudan.. He was a supporter of the Communist Party in his youth. [4] And following the start of the Sudanese Civil War, allied again with the Communist Party by having SLM-al Nur signing a revolutionary charter with the Party.
The University of Khartoum (U of K) (Arabic: جامعة الخرطوم) is a public university located in Khartoum, Sudan.It is the largest and oldest university in Sudan. UofK was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902 and established in 1956 when Sudan gained independenc