SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga – Sudan: RSF Lt Gen 'had hand in Musa Hilal release'

15/3/2021: Radio Dabanga –  Sudan: RSF Lt Gen 'had hand in Musa Hilal release'

Radio Dabanga report that former Janjaweed leader and head of the Revolutionary Awakening Council (RAC) Musa Hilal stated that meetings with Lt Gen Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo, Deputy Commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and member of the Transitional Partners Council (TPC), led to his release.

Musa Hilal was pardoned by the Transitional Sovereignty Council after being arrested in 2017 for refusing to respond to the government’s disarmament campaign. 

Dagalo  condemned “the media campaign that tries to distort the image of the Rapid Support Forces”, and warned “promoters of sedition” that the government and its institutions must be allowed to do their duty to protect the Sudanese people.

Hilal is still subject to UN sanctions that include a travel ban and an asset freeze. He has not been indicted by the International Criminal Court.