2 Owner of the company – named “Shield Protective Solutions” - is Musa Hamdan Daglo, a brother of RSF-boss #Hemedti. The company has a network that spans to the #UAE and the #UnitedKingdom – which, according to our sources, was appealing to #Sudan’s international community.
3 Customers of Shield were – among others – the embassies of 🇳🇱,🇳🇴,🇸🇪,🇩🇪,🇨🇭, + aid and developmental organizations such as #SaveTheChildren, #Saferword and The German Agency for International Cooperation (#GIZ)
5 The 🇳🇴 Embassy alone paid Shield and its predecessor (More Secure) about 825.000€ until the outbreak of the #war. But not all institutions stopped working with the company in April ’23. Among them is the 🇸🇪Embassy which still uses Shield's services until today
6 While most clients say, they were not aware of the company’s ties to #RSF, there are others who said they knew and continued to use them. – Despite the fact, that the RSF is notorious for violence and bloodshed, as we can again witness now during the ongoing war.
7 This raises many ethical questions since Europe and the West have officially been on a mission to support the country’s #DemocraticTransition since the downfall of Omar al-Bashir’s regime in April 2019
8 So far we - @_Aninanina @AnnaRoxvall @orgoldenberg @fabianurech @giacomo_zando @marensab + Johan Persson have published our research in 4 languages/ 5 outlets: @DIEZEIT @NZZ @sverigesradio @DeGroene & Vårt Land. More soon!
9 This project is financially supported by @journalismfund and has been supported in terms of research by @C4ADS. Thank you also for insights @baldozer09, @Qabdulshafi & Alex De Waal among others.
Publications (so far). 🇩🇪 shorturl.at, 🇨🇭 shorturl.at, 🇳🇴 shorturl.at, 🇳🇱 shorturl.at, 🇸🇪 t.ly More soon!
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