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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
World
Mat Nashed

The soft-power campaign of Sudan’s RSF leader ‘Hemedti’

The effect of Hemedti’s lobbyists on Western policymaking is unknown [File: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters]

After a tense power struggle erupted into violence in Sudan last week, world leaders and rights groups called for the army and the feared paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to exercise restraint and spare civilians.

The Twitter and Facebook pages of the RSF – and those of its leader Mohamad Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo – are now echoing those calls. On Tuesday, the group used its accounts to accuse the army of violently attacking civilians.

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