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Balance of power in Khartoum swings to Cairo-Abu Dhabi-Riyadh axis

General Mohamed Hamdan Dalgo aka Hemeti, head of the RSF and VP of the Transitional Military Council
General Mohamed Hamdan Dalgo aka Hemeti, head of the RSF and VP of the Transitional Military Council © Reuters
Building on the meeting organised on 17 May by the US assistant secretary of state for African affairs Tibor Nagy, on 21 June Berlin will host diplomats from the African Union, the United Nations, the European Union, the Intergovernmental Authority [...]
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