Sudan is sinking into a dirty war between General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the country's de facto president, and his former number two, General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, known as "Hemedti", at the head of the powerful Rapid militia. Support Forces (RSF).
The neighboring countries which are witnessing this bloody drama, born simply of the hatred between these two officers, are trying to push for mediation.
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In this concert, Russia and the Wagner group play a separate and complex score.
"The Russians, like all players, have extremely contradictory interests
," says Anne-Laure Mahé, researcher at the London School of Economics.
“ Official
” Russia
stands, at least in discourse, equidistant from the two protagonists, and avoids deciding so as not to lose everything.
Sudan is, in fact, an important pawn in the reconquest of Africa launched by the Kremlin in recent years.
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