Hemedti Moves Around on a Motorcycle, Changes Residence Seven Times Fearing Sudanese Army Airstrikes
Intensive and successive airstrikes carried out by the Sudanese Air Force against strategic sites belonging to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur State, have triggered widespread confusion and panic among the militia’s leaders and officers, as well as political figures affiliated with it. The attacks have prompted them to abandon their official residences and flee to alternative locations for fear of being targeted.
According to investigative information documented by Ayman Sharara, a writer specializing in Darfur affairs, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has been forced to change his secret residence more than seven times in recent weeks as a recurring precautionary measure following each airstrike. The information indicates that concealment measures have extended to using motorcycles for transportation instead of military and armored vehicles, in an effort to evade aerial surveillance and tracking.
The latest series of strikes targeted highly sensitive infrastructure and technical facilities belonging to the militia in the city. Among the sites hit was a building in Al-Matar (Airport) neighborhood designated to house drone operators, where three technicians were killed. Another strike hit a residential building on Al-Matar Street, near the Western Command headquarters, used to accommodate militia officers and foreign experts cooperating with them.
A concentrated airstrike also targeted a facility used for refining and processing gold in the New Industrial Zone, east of the livestock market and north of Al-Masani (factories) neighborhood, killing seven members of the facility’s security and protection personnel.
These attacks followed earlier strikes that successfully hit the livestock market, the Al-Masani neighborhood, and the militia’s Information Systems headquarters.
In a swift response to the successive losses, the RSF leadership issued urgent circulars warning its officers against remaining in known residences and imposing a ban on gatherings inside official facilities.
According to Sharara, the militia’s surveillance and control systems are now facing considerable difficulties and technical limitations in preventing aircraft from accurately reaching their targets, despite being able to detect some aerial threats in advance.
Sources further indicated that the latest strikes had disrupted the militia’s technical and financial operations, although no top-ranking RSF commanders had been killed so far.