Such is the way of contemporary war, as exemplified in this new fighting in Sudan. A warlord in one conflict helps out another in a second, at the behest of a distant power. Haftar is sending the supplies because his sponsors among states in the Middle East have asked him to and because it earns him a lot of money. The RSF is loyal to Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (usually referred to as Hemedti), a former camel trader who started his career in charge of a notoriously brutal militia in Sudan’s south-west before graduating to industrial-scale gold smuggling and massacring pro-democracy protesters. Other supplies, including potent Kornet anti-tank missiles looted from Libyan government stocks more than a decade ago, have been transported by air, say witnesses at al-Jawf’s airport. They are being sent by Khalifa Haftar, a warlord who runs much of eastern Libya. The trucks are carrying fuel from a refinery near the Libyan oasis town of al-Jawf – as well as smaller consignments of ammunition, weapons and medicine – to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) which is currently battling regular army units under the control of Sudan’s de facto military ruler, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
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