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🧵#SudanUpdate: Sudanese Mineral Resources Co. chief Mubarek Ardol, flanked by bodyguards, flew in a white UN plane from Kadugli, capital of Sudan's South Kordofan State to Wau, South Sudan at approximately 1:00pm on May 2, at the invitation of Juba and with the agreement of SAF. 
Ardol, an ex-spokesman for Malik Agar's faction of SPLM-N rebels who became head of SMRC in April 2020, had flown to Kadugli on April 14 -- the night before Sudan erupted in conflict between two warlords, Gen. Burhan of SAF and his deputy Hemedti of the RSF.
Ardol, wearing a suit and flanked by four bodyguards in civilian clothes, met with local officials, including Mousa Gaber Mahmoud, South Kordofan's acting provincial governor. He also met with Russian officials from the Wagner Group, and Wagner subsidiaries M-Invest
