Why is Kenya Supporting Sudan's Paramilitaries?
Simon Whistler · June 16, 2026 · 16 min video · Africa
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What this episode covers
Kenya has hosted RSF leaders as they declared a parallel Sudanese government, torching ties with Port Sudan. Gold flows, Gulf money, and Ruto's personal link to Hemedti explain the gamble.
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In early May this year, the rapid sport forces, RSF, a paramilitary group that has been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces, SAF, since 2023, held a meeting with their allies from the Sudan Founding Alliance, a group that seeks to establish a parallel government within Sudan.
The media was chaired by Mohammed Hamdan Dargalo, alias Emeti, the leader of the RSF, and according to the group was held in Nailah, the capital of South Darfur State, which the RSF and their allies have claimed as the capital of their parallel administration.
By all accounts, this was the kind of unremarkable government meeting that, other than the fact that it was hosted by the RSF, should have no business being in a video.
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