{"id":60226,"date":"2026-01-23T14:50:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=60226"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:50:30","slug":"militia-commander-barsham-announces-defection-from-the-dagalo-al-hilu-rebel-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/militia-commander-barsham-announces-defection-from-the-dagalo-al-hilu-rebel-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Militia Commander Barsham Announces Defection from the Dagalo\u2013Al-Hilu Rebel Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Field commander of the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, Hussein Barsham, has announced his defection from the alliance led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti), citing abuses committed by fighters affiliated with Abdelaziz al-Hilu\u2019s movement in areas under their control.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking during a meeting with tribal leaders and field commanders, Barsham revealed that their regions\u2014extending to the outskirts of South Kordofan\u2014are experiencing a state of chaos marked by looting, killings, kidnappings, and assaults on women, particularly minors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Barsham accused Abdelaziz al-Hilu\u2019s militia of seizing their lands and annexing them to areas referred to as \u201cliberated zones.\u201d He called on young men of the tribe to withdraw from combat fronts and focus on defending their communities against looming threats from Darfur-based tribes and al-Hilu\u2019s forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Field commander of the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, Hussein Barsham, has announced his defection from the alliance led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti), citing abuses committed by fighters affiliated with Abdelaziz al-Hilu\u2019s movement in areas under their control. Speaking during a meeting with tribal leaders and field commanders, Barsham revealed that their regions\u2014extending &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60230,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60226\/revisions\/60230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}