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Could an old tribal foe undercut Sudan’s Hemedti?

Musa Hilal celebrates with former President Omar al-Bashir at the wedding of the former's daughter [File: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters]

After two weeks of armed conflict, Sudan’s feared paramilitary leader, Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, has fought the army to a deadlock in the capital of Khartoum.

But his Rapid Support Forces could be more vulnerable in their stronghold in Darfur, where a rival has challenged Hemedti for tribal supremacy, analysts and residents told Al Jazeera.

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