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Opinion: How the UAE’s mafia-style tactics are hurting both Sudans
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Opinion: How the UAE’s mafia-style tactics are hurting both Sudans

Opinion: How the UAE’s mafia-style tactics are hurting both Sudans. The UAE has signed agreements with Sudan and South Sudan, strangling the two countries economically and politically, while openly supporting the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).  A report by the United Nations Panel of Experts on Darfur, under Security Council Resolution 1591, accused the UAE of supporting...

Violent war of words between Algiers and Abu Dhabi
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Violent war of words between Algiers and Abu Dhabi

The latent crisis between Algiers and Abu Dhabi is now out in the open. This week, the X network (formerly Twitter) is flooded with hundreds of messages, oscillating between reproaches and hostilities, between Emirati internet users and, on the other side, Algerians or other nationalities defending Algiers’ position. The intensity of these less-than-cordial exchanges is...

UAE rejects Sudan’s allegations at UN Security Council
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UAE rejects Sudan’s allegations at UN Security Council

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has rejected accusations made by Sudan at the United Nations Security Council, accusing the Gulf country of supplying weapons and ammunition to the Rapid Support Forces(RSF) that have been fighting the Sudanese for nearly a year. In a letter to the Council President, Mohamed Abushahab, the UAE’s Deputy Permanent Representative,...

Dirty Money Is Destroying Sudan
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Dirty Money Is Destroying Sudan

A humanitarian and human rights catastrophe is unfolding in Sudan. With nearly 11 million people already displaced—three million of them children—the country is now home to the most people rendered homeless by conflict worldwide, and its populace sits poised on the brink of a major famine. A collapsing medical system renders the war’s true death...

UAE supplied Serbian Yugoimport armed drone to the RSF
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UAE supplied Serbian Yugoimport armed drone to the RSF

A peculiar military VTOL drone drone armed with two 120mm mortar rounds was shot down by the Sudanese armed forces. The type have been seen in several conflict across the Middle East and Africa over the years. The unique drone was operated by the Sudanese paramilitary forces; the Rapid Support Force (RSF) in it’s fight...

Sudan escalates diplomatic tensions with UAE, plans to file complaint to regional, International institutions
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Sudan escalates diplomatic tensions with UAE, plans to file complaint to regional, International institutions

January 21, 2024 (OMDURMAN) – Sudanese Sovereign Council member and Army Assistant Commander-in-Chief Yasir Al-Atta announced on Sunday that the government would file a complaint with regional organizations and escalate it to the UN Security Council against the UAE for its involvement in exacerbating the armed conflict in Sudan. A recent report by a UN...

The UAE Must Stop Sponsoring the RSF Militia in Sudan
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The UAE Must Stop Sponsoring the RSF Militia in Sudan

The UAE Must Stop Sponsoring the RSF Militia in Sudan. The UAE’s support for the RSF militia is a violation of foreign territorial sovereignty, prohibited under international law. In April 2023, war broke out in Sudan between the Sudanese National Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), killing thousands and displacing millions. As the fighting...

Tensions between Sudanese Armed Forces, UAE reach boiling point
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Tensions between Sudanese Armed Forces, UAE reach boiling point

Since Nov. 2023, tensions between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)—commanded by Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan—and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have risen. On Nov. 27, Lt. Gen. Yasser Al-Atta, the assistant commander-in-chief of the SAF, criticized the UAE for behaving like a “mafia state” in a speech at a military headquarters. Less than two weeks later, authorities in...

Sudan nears another breaking point
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Sudan nears another breaking point

The civil war in Sudan that erupted in April 2023 is spreading. With thousands killed and millions displaced, the troubled nation is in danger of further fragmentation.  is led by the nation’s actual ruler, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, while the RSF is commanded by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti. The two men joined forces...

Reps. Omar and Jacobs Lead Letter on Preventing Atrocities in Sudan
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Reps. Omar and Jacobs Lead Letter on Preventing Atrocities in Sudan

WASHINGTON—Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) led a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken today seeking additional information about U.S. strategies for atrocity prevention and justice in Sudan. The signers specifically ask the status of the Department’s efforts to make atrocity determinations and its impact on U.S. policy. The letter is...