# Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo

## Identity and office

Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has commanded Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces since 2013. He remains commander. He does not write an OHCHR note. [Omar al-Bashir](/people/omar-al-bashir) is named in prose as the president who created RSF from former Janjaweed groups. He is not minted.

Do not open with a mediation résumé. The sit-in file is dated. On 3 June 2019, Human Rights Watch recorded, RSF-led forces opened fire on the Khartoum sit-in, killing scores ([HRW, 4 June 2019](https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/06/04/sudan-halt-attacks-protesters)). A TMC health-ministry figure of 61 on 3 June is a neighbouring official tally. Those instruments disagree. This page does not invent a unique integer. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan chaired the TMC and already has a public page.

The war file is dated. On 15 April 2023 fighting erupted in Khartoum between RSF and SAF ([Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/heavy-gunfire-heard-south-sudanese-capital-khartoum-witnesses-2023-04-15/); [BBC](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65284945)). Hemedti called Burhan a criminal. First-shot claims are contested.

The El Fasher file is an OHCHR and HRW product. From May 2024 RSF imposed a siege. On 24–30 October 2025 OHCHR documented a final offensive and capture ([OHCHR](https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ohchr-report-rsf-final-offensive-and-capture-besieged-el-fasher-24-30)). Human Rights Watch interviewed refugees who fled to eastern Chad ([HRW, 5 February 2026](https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/02/05/interview-investigating-the-downfall-of-el-fasher-sudan)). IPC later confirmed famine in El Fasher town ([Reuters, 3 November 2025](https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/hunger-monitor-confirms-famine-darfurs-al-fashir-one-other-city-2025-11-03/)). This page does not invent a unique October 2025 integer or copy interview tallies as a size. Gold-mining companies tied to the Dagalo family are neighbouring resource-war files. They are not a unique export coefficient here.

## Documented benefits

The offsets that a commissioned-positive portrait would lead with are real only where dated, and they are not this assignment’s through-line. A 2019 Port Sudan local deal is neighbouring. It is not a rebate of 3 June 2019.

## Contributions and limits of responsibility

He commanded RSF on 3 June 2019, on 15 April 2023, and through the El Fasher siege. Sharing TMC membership with Burhan is not a reason to drop 3 June 2019.

## Causal chain through facts

The 2019 dispersal strengthens the owned RSF-war driver and weakens [civic space](/drivers/civic-space). The 2023 outbreak and the El Fasher capture strengthen the owned driver.

## What the score does not say

This page does not promise an exact massacre census or a completed ICC judgment. Direction on this chain is negative: the documented instruments are an RSF-led sit-in dispersal, a capital war, and a starved then captured city. A later genuine civilian contest would be a different fact with a different date.

## Dated facts

- 2025: RSF captures El Fasher after a siege OHCHR dates from May 2024. https://factrail.ai/facts/sd-hemedti-el-fasher-2025. Sources: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/02/05/interview-investigating-the-downfall-of-el-fasher-sudan, https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ohchr-report-rsf-final-offensive-and-capture-besieged-el-fasher-24-30.
- 2023: RSF–SAF fighting erupts in Khartoum under Hemedti’s RSF command. https://factrail.ai/facts/sd-hemedti-war-2023. Sources: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65284945, https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/heavy-gunfire-heard-south-sudanese-capital-khartoum-witnesses-2023-04-15/.
- 2019: RSF-led forces disperse the Khartoum sit-in with lethal force. https://factrail.ai/facts/sd-hemedti-june3-2019. Sources: https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/11/17/sudan-justice-needed-protester-killings, https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/06/04/sudan-halt-attacks-protesters.

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/hemedti