Ugandan president appears with Sudanese militia leader Daglo The Polish government formally dissolves the public media

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said he has received Sudanese militia leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo for talks on the situation in the conflict in Sudan. Museveni announced this on Wednesday on Platform X. A photo showed a handshake between the two.

No public appearances – rumors of death

Daglo has not been seen in public since shortly after fighting broke out in April between his militia, the RSF and the Sudanese army, except in videos released by the RSF, which have repeatedly fueled rumors of serious injury or death. Unlike those of Sudan’s de facto head of state Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Daglo’s brother Abdelrahim, Daglo’s foreign trips have not yet been reported.

However, a meeting between the militia leader and Sudan’s de facto head of state, expected to take place on Thursday, was postponed until early January for “technical reasons”, as Djibouti’s foreign ministry announced on Wednesday. The meeting, organized through the Igad East African regional association, was said to be the first time the two leaders had met in person since the start of the conflict. In the past, numerous attempts at mediation, including the US and Saudi Arabia, have failed.

Serious human rights crimes committed by the militia

The power struggle between the two generals, who came to power together in a coup in 2019, has caused severe hardship to the Horn of Africa country’s pre-war population of about 46 million people.

Daglo’s RSF, which emerged from mounted militias notorious for serious human rights crimes in Sudan’s Darfur region, has been accused of looting, mass killings, rape and ethnic cleansing. Recently, the militia, which observers say is backed by the United Arab Emirates, was also able to advance against the Sudanese army in the center of the country.

(hah/sda/dpa)