February 2025
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Mohamed ‘Hemedti’ Hamdan Dagalo, the leader of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), is closely linked to a $1.7 million property portfolio in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to real estate records uncovered by The Sentry. The brutal RSF militia have been at war with the Sudanese Armed Forces since 2023, leading to the deaths of more than 100,000 people. Hemedti has been sanctioned by the United States, which has accused the RSF of genocide in Western Sudan’s Darfur region. His linkages to multiple properties stands in stark contrast to the homelessness the war has inflicted on Sudan: 12 million people—a quarter of Sudan’s population—had fled their homes as of January 2026.
In March 2020, Hemedti bought three apartments in Dubai’s eastern suburbs, close to the UAE’s Al Minhad military airbase. The properties were first bought in his own name and then sold in July 2022 to Prodigious Real Estate Management Supervision Services (“Prodigious”), registered in the UAE. The past and present directors and owners of Prodigious are closely linked to other companies sanctioned for their connections to the RSF. Prodigious is currently 100% owned by Abo Zer Abdelnabi Habiballa Ahmmed, also known as Abozer Habib. The US Treasury sanctioned Habib in 2025 as the owner of the Capital Tap group, which included companies that provided money and military equipment to the RSF. Former owners and directors of Prodigious—namely, Emirati businessman Naser Helal Abdulla Helal Alhammadi and Sudanese national Islam Badreldin Mohamed Abdalla—also used to own companies in the Capital Tap group. Prodigious, Habib, Alhammadi, and Abdalla did not respond to requests for comment.
We estimate the three properties to be worth just under $1 million. Prodigious also owns a commercial property in Dubai, worth about $670,000. The tenant of that property was an interior design company formerly owned by Alhammadi and Mazin Fadlalla. Fadlalla’s role as a suspected frontman for the RSF was revealed by The Sentry in 2025. Between 2023 and 2025, Prodigious earned at least $80,000 per year in rent from this portfolio.
The Sentry found the properties in a database of leaked Dubai property records from 2020 and 2022 first obtained by the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), an American non-profit organization. An investigative journalism outfit, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), helped obtain information that confirmed the current role played by Prodigious.
The property purchases shed further light on the RSF’s relationship with the UAE. The UAE adamantly denies supporting the RSF. However, this investigation into the property portfolio linked to Hemedti is the third Sentry report that reveals the intricate connections between the Dagalo family, the RSF, and the UAE. The first publication detailed how RSF front companies, including those run by Alhammadi, Abdalla and Habib, operated out of Dubai. The second revealed that the Emirati businessman sup-plying Colombian mercenaries to train the RSF is the business partner of the UAE’s most senior bureaucrat. Investigations by others have found that the UAE supplies weapons and drones to the RSF, while smuggled gold flows in the other direction. Emirati support for the RSF stems from the very top, including ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed and his brothers, Shiekh Mansour and Sheikh Tahnoun, according to the New York Times.