On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Thomas Mountain, who has been one of the most widely distributed independent journalists in Africa, about the ongoing violent clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces led by General Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as ‘Hemedti’. He discusses why General Burhan, who ousted former civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, is the CIA’s man in Sudan, Egypt’s alleged role in the battle between the two factions, the strategic importance of the Horn of Africa and Bab al-Mandab Strait, and why Washington tries to control it, the differences between Burhan and Hemedti on their stances regarding civilian rule in Sudan, Eritrea’s new alliance with Ethiopia following the conflict between the TPLF against Ethiopia and Eritrea, why the fight between Burhan and Hemedti is a ‘fight to the finish’ and much more.
