Sudan’s army-aligned government on Sunday criticised Kampala for hosting rival paramilitary chief Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, slamming his reception by Uganda’s president as an “affront to humanity”.
Hemeti on Friday met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni at Intebbe’s State House, a day after a United Nations probe found his forces had committed acts of genocide in Darfur.
Sudan’s foreign ministry on Sunday criticised the meeting, saying the RSF’s atrocities had been “documented by the international community and condemned by regional organisations of which Uganda is a member”, including the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (#GAD).
Daglo, speaking during his visit, said he travelled to Uganda after President Museveni was approached by the Sudanese army seeking his mediation.
His visit came a week after Museveni hosted Malik Agar, Burhan’s deputy in his ruling Transitional Sovereignty Council.
Addressing supporters on Friday, Daglo called for Africa-led mediation. “From the first day of the war, we said negotiations must be African. Peace should be made in Africa: IGAD and the African Union,” he told the gathering.
Efforts to secure a ceasefire have repeatedly collapsed. In January, Sudan’s army was studying a new proposal from the United States and Saudi Arabia.
In his speech on Friday, Daglo described the conflict as an “existential war” and vowed victory.
He said his forces would have already captured the capital Khartoum and Port Sudan on the Red Sea “if it weren’t for drones from neighbouring countries”, after reports of Egyptian and Turkish strikes on his supply lines into Darfur.
On the other side of the country, Daglo assured his supporters their “brothers were moving well in the Blue Nile”, where fighting on the border with Ethiopia has raised concerns of a new front opening.
Source:AS
