a peace deal between groups in armed conflict in Port Sudan.

In October 2021, Hemedti took part in army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's 2021 Sudan coup d'état, but a growing rift between him and al-Burhan caused him to call that coup a "mistake" in February 2023, and in April 2023 he mobilised the RSF against al-Burhan's government and captured key government sites (although al-Burhan disputed this),