Sudanese military leader in Moscow for talks with Lavrov

Sudanese military leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemeti, was in Moscow today for talks with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. 

Hemeti, leader of the Rapid Support Forces militia, tweeted that he had met Lavrov to discuss "ways to develop and deepen aspects of bilateral cooperation, and the need to expand the base of cooperation in political, diplomatic, economic and commercial fields, and speed up the activation of existing agreements between the two countries." 

The Sudanese military leader arrived in Russia yesterday, praising President Vladimir Putin and saying, in relation to the Ukraine crisis, that Russia had a right to "defend its interests".