Sudan crisis: The ruthless mercenaries who run the country for gold
20 July 2019
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been accused of widespread abuses in Sudan, including the 3 June massacre in which more than 120 people were reportedly killed, with many of the dead dumped in the River Nile. Sudan expert Alex de Waal charts their rise.
The RSF are now the real ruling power in Sudan. They are a new kind of regime: a hybrid of ethnic militia and business enterprise, a transnational mercenary force that has captured a state.
Their commander is General Mohamed Hamdan "Hemeti" Dagolo, and he and his fighters have come a long way since their early days as a rag-tag Arab militia widely denigrated as the "Janjaweed".
Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48987901
Africa poor but... not that poor and a lot of the fighting is about the great mineral wealth Africa actually and control of it. Mining and so on. If some economic system could be set up benefiting more. In fact, last week there was a story on the many Africans who will mind gold for themselves, really like the prospectors did.
(DR) Congo??? Where did we get the uranium for the a-bombs we dropped on Japan? DR Congo. What's more, the Germans were trying to get the same stuff during WWII. Fascinating stuff.
Diamonds? Of course, we know Africa has it. Really, surface stuff of what is going on.
