An Emirati Disinformation Campaign to Whitewash the El Fasher Massacres and the Role of the Rapid Support Forces

Amjad Farid Al-Tayeb

Following the fall of El Fasher and the massacres perpetrated there by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, the United Arab Emirates launched a wide-ranging disinformation campaign aimed at covering up and casting doubt on these crimes. This campaign did not stop at media manipulation through fake social media accounts; it extended to direct diplomatic engagement in defense of the militia.

According to Africa Intelligence, Emirati diplomat Majid Al Mutawa
(@majid_almutawa), who serves as the official responsible for congressional relations at the UAE Embassy in Washington, launched an email campaign targeting members of the U.S. Congress during October and November 2025. In these messages, he referred to what he described as “false narratives” circulating about events in Sudan—an effort designed to divert attention from the nature of the crimes committed and the scale of the grave violations carried out by the militia.

The UAE’s aggression against Sudan and its involvement in this war have become plainly evident to all except those who have chosen to look away. Today, the UAE is neither a mediator nor a neutral actor; it is a direct party waging aggression against Sudan and its people—politically, militarily, and through media operations. Anyone who aligns with the UAE, justifies its actions, or contributes to whitewashing its criminal role in Sudan becomes a partner in this aggression, bearing political, moral, and criminal responsibility for its catastrophic consequences for the Sudanese people and the Sudanese state.

Members of the so-called Sudanese “Brothel Party,” acting as corrupt hirelings unashamed of serving as agents for a foreign state that feeds and bankrolls them, assume that everyone else is cut from the same cloth. They seek to brand anyone who opposes their political subservience and alignment with the Janjaweed of the RSF as merely an extension of Islamist (“Kizan”) rhetoric. This tactic is nothing more than an attempt to evade their inability to defend a position that is fundamentally based on trading in Sudanese blood in service of the UAE’s agenda. They deflect by trying to shift the debate toward the Islamists.

The Sudanese “Brothel Party” is a textbook example of a bankrupt merchant rummaging through old ledgers.