Spotlight | South Sudan, Sudan
Hemeti holds hushed talks with southern neighbour

South Sudan
Riek Machar's SPLM-IO party splinters ahead of elections

Two factions of the opposition party are clashing through a series of statements. The position of the country's first vice-president, still under house arrest, is the subject of much speculation.

South Sudan, Sudan
RSF presses Juba to control oil revenues

Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo's visit to Juba has put the Heglig oil field back at the centre of fraught talks over revenue-sharing, exposing the South Sudanese president to pressure from both Sudan's warring sides.

Sudan
Hemeti carefully arbitrates to save his tribal alliances

The peace agreement signed at the end of June between the Salamat and Beni Halba tribes was not enough to calm tensions between Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo's two regional allies. The general is concerned about the impact the clashes are having on the supply lines to his troops.

Sudan
RSF head Hemeti secretly cultivates ties with Israel

Since the start of the war, the Rapid Support Forces leadership has maintained high-level contacts with Tel Aviv. Its senior figures and leader's family members have made several trips there in a security cooperation that predates the conflict.

Sudan
New Saudi ambassador set to play more active role in Khartoum

The change of Saudi Arabia's representative in Sudan comes as the kingdom ups its support for the head of the national army, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

Sudan
France about to appoint new envoy

French diplomat Jean-Marie Safa, ambassador to Yemen from 2020 to 2023, is well poised to be appointed to this post based in Addis Ababa.

Sudan
Hemeti and Abdelaziz al-Hilu split over who to name as future army chief

The head of the Rapid Support Forces has just appointed a new security and defence council within the Tasis coalition. In the long term, he has to organise an army opposed to that of Port Sudan.

South Sudan, Sudan
Riyadh turns to Juba to reach out to Hemeti

In an effort to revive the Jeddah process, Saudi Arabia is urging the South Sudanese authorities to use their close ties with Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo to bring him back to the negotiating table.

Sudan
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan restructures his army

By firing his deputy, Shams al-Dine Kabbashi, who was seen as too willing to negotiate and too exposed following military setbacks in Blue Nile, Sudan's ruling general has effectively dismantled the diplomatic wing of the Port Sudan military apparatus and strengthened the most radical faction.

South Sudan, Uganda
One setback after another for junior Oranto

The Nigerian group founded by Arthur Eze continues to rack up refusals of its permit renewals on the continent due to insufficient work.

The New Guard
Sudan, Morocco, Ethiopia

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

SudanAmgad Fareid Eltayeb, former communist who has the ear of Burhan

MoroccoFadoua Mezgueldi, ‘green' finance pro serving the continent

EthiopiaMistresilasie Tamerat, rising opposition figure in Addis Ababa

Sudan
The Emergency Response Rooms' elusive unity

In Berlin, on the sidelines of the international conference on Sudan, the ERR, one of the country's leading grassroots organisations, is facing a governance crisis. The horizontal model on which it built its reputation is now under attack from within.

Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan
Hemeti and Tutkew Gatluak Manime's low-key Nairobi meeting

Oil issues were in all likelihood at the heart of the discussions between the RSF leader and Juba's head of security. The fate of the Sudanese site of Heglig, recently occupied by the South Sudanese People's Defence Forces, was probably central to their talks.

South Sudan, Sudan
Port Sudan welcomes return of Salva Kiir's security adviser

Back in the job he was fired from in January, Tutkew Gatluak Manime is expected to mend fences with South Sudan's northern neighbour to ensure the full resumption of critical oil exports.