RSF claim they are ready to form new government in Sudan
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have announced that they have completed the necessary arrangements in order to form a parallel government as they begin to ready passports and currency for the formation of a “new Sudan” after nearly two years of civil war.
Arab World reported on March 8th that the RSF are ready to form a government of “peace and unity”.
The RSF have control of territories across the south and west of Sudan as well as parts of the capital, Khartoum.
The RSF, led by Mohammad Hamdan Daglo, insisted that they would protect these regions from air strikes from the army, allowing them to carry out “acts of service to the people”.
They have also vowed to maintain the fight against the army and its allies until they have liberated the northern states, as well as the River Nile, Red Sea and Kassala state from the “Islamist movement”, which they claim has control of the army.
The RSF will need air cover in order to begin the rudimentary elements of state building.
New passports and currency will have to be printed which, according to RSF second in command Abdulrahim Hamdan Daglo, will now be possible as they possess the required machinery.
Toward the end of February 2025, an RSF delegation travelled to Nairobi, Kenya in order to have their agreement witnessed.
Kenya’s support for the RSF sparked outrage from across the international community, not least of all from the incumbent Sudanese government claiming that it was “a grave threat to regional security and peace”, as reported by Maghrebi.
The signatories included the SPLM-N, who control a large area across South Kordofan.
The RSF has vowed to build a “new Sudan” and that their government will carry out development and peace keeping projects across the country.
This is despite the fact that they have repeatedly targeted – and killed – civilians, leading to the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
Famine, mass displacement and outbreaks of cholera have plunged the country into a state of intense insecurity.
Abdulrahim Daglo has insisted that he will return to the field of battle to fight the army: “We will fight them no matter where they are. The rights of the Sudanese people will never be wasted.”
Rather than bring “unity”, it is feared that the formation of the parallel government will only further divide the country.
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