Leader of Sudan’s RSF visits Ethiopia in rare foreign trip as war rages

Mohamed Hamdan 'Hemedti' Dagalo, centre, is on his first known foreign trip since Sudan's war began and made his second stop in Ethiopia on December 28, 2023, after visiting Uganda [File: Ashraf Shazly/AFP]

The leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, has visited neighbouring Ethiopia, where he has had discussions on the end of the war between the RSF and Sudan’s army.

Dagalo, known as “Hemedti”, landed in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, on Thursday in the second stop of his first known public foreign trip since the war erupted on April 15.