Sudan indicts Hemedti and brother for mass atrocities

Sudanese authorities have indicted Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti), leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and his brother Abdel Rahim Dagalo, in absentia on charges including the killing of Darfur’s governor and genocide linked to mass ethnic violence in the region .

The charges stem from the abduction and killing of West Darfur governor Khamis Abakar in June 2023, whose dismembered body was circulated online, escalating…