Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, chairman of the Sudanese ruling Sovereign Council and army commander, referred on Saturday Major General Mohamed Alawi Koko to retirement after the latter joined the Rapid Support Forces.
Burhan also exempted Koko from the position of Chairman of the Joint Supervisory Committee for Abyei which is a disputed area between Sudan and South Sudan, according to the spokesman of the Armed Forces, Nabil Abdullah.
The RSF announced on Thursday that hundreds of honorable members of the armed forces under Major General Mohamed Alawi Koko sided with the people’s choice and responded to the call by Sudanese paramilitary leader General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, known as Hemedti.
Koko announced in a video published on the X platform defecting from the army and joining the RSF in order to support the Sudanese cause and establish democracy.
The RSF added in a statement that the forces in West Darfur received 236 individuals from the 15th Infantry Division in El Geneina in addition to 300 officers and individuals from the 10th Division Abu Jubayhah and 50 individuals from the police in South Kordofan.
