2023-10-01
EUROPE/SUDAN - This series of investigative reports looks at a private security company belonging to the RSF shadow economy and at its clients – European and Western embassies, aid and developmental organizations.
On April 15, 2023, the power struggle between Sudan’s military (SAF) and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) escalated into a full-blown war.
One reason why RSF has become so powerful in the years leading to the current fighting stems from its influential business network tied to the family of RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, better known as Hemedti.
Our investigation exposes how several European and Western countries have been complicit in the rise of RSF – by contracting a private security company belonging to Hemedti’s shadow economy to safeguard various embassies as well as the buildings of developmental and aid organizations in Sudan prior to the war and even beyond.
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€12.750,00 allocated on 30/08/2023ID
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ONLINE
- Norsk ambassade har brukt sikkerhetsselskap som knyttes til krigsherre, Vårt Land (01/10/2023)
- Geld aus Bern für einen Kriegstreiber: Wie die Schweiz zum Schutz ihrer Botschaft im Sudan mit einer berüchtigten Miliz kooperiert hat, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, (01/10/2023)
- Westerse landen betaalden via een louche beveiligingsbedrijf mee aan de oorlog in Soedan. De Groene, 01/10/2023
- Unfreiwillige Helfer, Zeit Online, 01/10/2023
- Sidapengar gick till bolag med koppling till ökänd milis - Omvärlden, 26/10/2023
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