Why is Kenya Supporting Sudan's Paramilitaries?
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.
Simon Whistler • June 16, 2026
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In early May this year, the Rapid Support 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 meeting was chaired by Mohamed Hamdan Dargalo, alias Hermeti, the leader of the RSF, and according to the group, was held in Nayala, 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 for Frontstar Co.
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