The leader of the Sudanese RSF recognizes that the military coup “has not achieved the necessary change”

Aug. 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The vice president of the Sovereign Transitional Council of Sudan and leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, acknowledged on Monday that the military coup that occurred last year and the subsequent overthrow of the country’s civilian prime minister “have not achieved the necessary change.

Hamdam Dagalo, popularly known as ‘Hemedti’, has confessed this in an interview with the BBC, in which he has announced that he would support anyone who is willing to present himself to lead the country.

“Putting Abdallah Hamdok under house arrest has only made the situation worse,” ‘Hemedti’ told the aforementioned network.

Hamdok signed an agreement in November 2021 with which he was restored as Prime Minister of the country with all his powers, after his dismissal as a result of the coup on October 25 of the same year. The prime minister was reinstated a month later, after reaching an agreement with the coup leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and then resigned in January 2022.

During this time, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Khartoum and other cities to call on the military to restore civilian rule.

In July, al-Burhan said he, too, was willing to step aside if rival factions could agree on a civilian government, although protesters called his offer a “ruse”.

The transitional authorities were established after an agreement between the previous military junta, which emerged after the 2019 coup against Omar Hassan al Bashir, and various civil organizations and opposition political formations. This government had initiated a battery of social and economic reforms and has reached a peace agreement with major rebel groups in Darfur and other areas of the country.