On 15 April 2023, the power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) escalated into a full-scale war.
One reason the RSF has become so powerful in the years leading up to the current fighting is its influential business network linked to the family of RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, better known as Hemedti.
Our investigation reveals how several European and Western countries have been complicit in the rise of RSF - by hiring a private security firm that is part of Hemedti's shadow economy to protect various embassies, as well as the buildings of development and aid organisations in Sudan before and even after the war.
