Why diplomacy over Sudan, Africa’s enduring nightmare, is stuck
A notorious warlord is winning the public-relations war as well as the real one
It is hard to imagine a greater irony than a man who stands accused of genocide being welcomed on an official tour of a memorial to that most heinous of crimes. But on January 6th that is precisely what happened, when Sudan’s most infamous warlord, Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo (better known as Hemedti), visited the genocide memorial in Kigali that commemorates the Rwanda catastrophe of 1994. Sudan, he said barefaced, “must learn from Rwanda”.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The worst warlord is winning”
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