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This week, pictures of the leader of the paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, better known as Hemedti, at a genocide memorial in Rwanda and in Kenya hugging President William Ruto might have confused many.

That鈥檚 because a civil war has raged in Sudan since last April.

It began after Hemedti and the head of the armed forces General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan disagreed on the direction the country was going in and the proposed move towards civilian rule. The most contentious issue were plans to include the Rapid Support Forces鈥檚 100,000 troops into the army.

With no peace talks in sight, why is the RSF鈥檚 leader choosing to meet African leaders instead? Africa Daily鈥檚 Alan Kasujja has been speaking to the 大象传媒鈥檚 Africa correspondent Anne Soy and Suliman Baldo, an expert on Sudan and Executive Director of the Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker