The Sudan Founding Alliance (TASIS) — a broad coalition of civil, political and armed movements formed in February 2025 — cemented its structure this week by naming four senior officers to guide its 31-member Leadership Council.
Each brings a different strength to the table, together projecting a blend of battlefield leverage, liberation credentials, civic activism and constitutional know-how.
Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo
Chairman — Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
Dagalo rose to head the RSF and later helped broker the 2020 Juba Peace Agreement. Now he casts himself as a nation-builder, pledging to fold the RSF into a single, civilian-controlled army and bankroll reconstruction with gold-sector revenues he says will be “transparent and pro-poor.”
Supporters credit his personal wealth, Gulf links and command‐and-control reach with giving TASIS the muscle — and the money — to negotiate from strength.
Abdel Aziz Adam al-Hilu
Deputy Chairman — SPLM-N (al-Hilu faction)
A veteran guerrilla leader from the Nuba Mountains, al-Hilu is revered in rebel strongholds for insisting on secularism, federalism and equal citizenship. His 2024 unilateral cease-fire and repeated calls for humanitarian corridors earned rare praise from Church and UN mediators.
By accepting the No. 2 slot, he lends TASIS moral legitimacy and a bridge to long-marginalised communities in Blue Nile and South
Dr Alaa Eldin Awad Nugud
Official Spokesperson — Civil activist
A transplant surgeon and human-rights defender, Dr Nugud shot to prominence during the 2019 uprising as a voice for the Sudanese Professionals’ Association. Detained several times for criticising both SAF and militia abuses, he is seen by urban youth networks as proof that TASIS is more than a rebel-only club.
His media savvy and credibility with resistance committees position him to articulate the alliance’s secular-democratic message to a war-weary public.
Makin Hamid Tirab
Rapporteur — Independent legal scholar
Little known outside legal circles, Tirab has spent years advising civil-society forums on decentralisation and constitutional design. TASIS insiders describe him as the “quiet drafter” of the alliance’s interim constitution, prized for translating revolutionary slogans into airtight legal clauses.
As Rapporteur he will steward documentation, ensure procedural integrity and anchor negotiations in solid jurisprudence.
Why the mix matters: Dagalo supplies coercive leverage, al-Hilu ideological clarity, Nugud civic credibility, and Tirab legal rigour.
Together they embody TASIS’s claim to unite guns, grassroots and governance expertise behind a single, forward-looking vision — one its supporters hope can finally turn Sudan’s longing for peace and equal citizenship into lived reality.
