What is happening in Sudan?

(B) Integration of the Janjaweed militia in Sudan Armed Forces (SAF)

The notorious janjaweed militia who dominated and featured the conflict in Darfur in 2003 is now becoming a focus of the conflict again. It is now formally belongs to the NCP and commanded by the National Intelligence and Security Services NISS. They are mainly from the Arab Riziegat tribe. To give them some kind of formality they were named Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Key leaders of the janjaweed were given military ranks and supplied with arms, land cruisers and money to fight the Darfurian rebel groups. Through a systematic horror and crimes against the people in Darfur, they became one of the key actors in the region. Their leader Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, better known as Hemeti was once an enemy to NCP. Today he is one of the most important allies to the government in Khartoum in their efforts to encounter insurgency in Darfur. Hemeti became the prime leader of janjaweed with influential power inside the NISSS and SAF. It is widely believed that the accusations made by Sadiq Almahadi, the leader of the Umma Party, against the RSF were behind his arrest in last week, by Hemeti in personal ordering his arrest. Almahdi was questioned before state security prosecutors regarding the remarks he made accusing RSF of committing serious crimes and abuse in Darfur and Kordufan including rape as well as #####ng and burning villages. Debating or discussing the role of the RSF in the conflict in Darfur and Kordufan is regarded as a crime against the national security of Sudan.

Assessment
The formation of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) marks the beginning of the Somalization of the conflict in Sudan. The NCP has invested in arming Arab tribes to encounter insurgency in Darfur and Kordufan. The outcome of this policy is rise of warlords like Hemeti leading to more insecurity in those regions. The instability in South Sudan and the conflict between Riek Machar and Silva Kiir have strengthened the RSF positions in Kordufan and Darfur. Today they have been seen as heroes according to defense minister of the GOS Abdulrahim Mohamed Hussien.
Of importance to mention here is that, the GOS has managed to keep UNAMID outside this conflict. UNAMID are currently silent observers to the crimes committed by the RFS in fear of being kicked out side Darfur and Sudan.

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