The Commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti), arrived yesterday morning, Sunday, in the capital, Djibouti, to meet with the country’s president, head of the current session of the IGAD organization, to discuss developments in the situation in Sudan.
Hemedti met with Ismail Omar Gila, confirming his readiness to negotiate peace in Sudan.
Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssef said that the visit of the Commander of the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, Lieutenant General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, to his country today and his meeting with the President of Djibouti falls within the framework of his country’s efforts, by virtue of its presidency of IGAD, to reach a ceasefire.
This visit comes after IGAD announced on Wednesday that it had postponed a meeting called for by the organization between Sudanese army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Hemedti in Djibouti, but this announcement came after the arrangements had been completed, and amid conflicting statements regarding the issue of Hemedti’s attendance.
The IGAD Summit stated in its official speech that the meeting between Al-Burhan and Hemedti has been postponed to January at a specific date that will be announced later for technical reasons.
She also said that she had notified the Sudanese army commander, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, of Hemedti’s apology for attending the Djibouti meeting.

This announcement came after a Sudanese source, citing the organization, reported earlier today that the atmosphere had been prepared for the two sides of the conflict to meet and a fruitful meeting would be held between them tomorrow, Thursday.

It is noteworthy that IGAD had invited Al-Burhan and Hemedti to meet in order to agree on a ceasefire, and to discuss ways to facilitate the arrival of relief materials.

While the war and clashes in Sudan between the army and the Rapid Support Forces have continued since April 15, resulting in the death of about 10,000 people and the internal displacement of about seven million people, according to the United Nations. About 1.5 million other people also fled to neighboring countries to escape the war.