{"id":12473,"date":"2024-01-25T10:17:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T10:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=12473"},"modified":"2024-01-25T10:17:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T10:17:59","slug":"uae-denies-sending-weapons-to-sudans-rsf-paramilitary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/25\/uae-denies-sending-weapons-to-sudans-rsf-paramilitary\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE denies sending weapons to Sudan\u2019s RSF paramilitary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Agencies – Sudan Events\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The United Arab Emirates has denied arming the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in its war against the Sudanese army, the Financial Times has reported, after a leaked UN report said it had \u201ccredible\u201d evidence that the Gulf country was providing military support to the paramilitary group.
\nAccording to the UN document, evidence suggest that the UAE had sent weapons to the RSF \u201cseveral times per week\u201d via Amdjarass in northern Chad.
\nThe UAE \u201cdoes not take sides in the current conflict,\u201d an Emirati official on Wednesday told the British newspaper. The country had \u201cconsistently called for de-escalation, a sustainable ceasefire and the initiation of diplomatic dialogue\u201d in Sudan, the source was cited as saying.<\/p>\n

The UN report, which has not been published yet, was compiled by experts for the UN Security Council.
\nIn a letter to the monitors, the UAE said 122 flights had delivered humanitarian aid to Amdjarass to help Sudanese fleeing the war.
\nLast week, a UAE official told Reuters that it extended an invitation to the UN monitors to visit a field hospital in Amdjarass \u201cto learn firsthand about the humanitarian efforts undertaken by the UAE to help alleviate suffering caused by the current conflict\u201d.<\/p>\n

The RSF, led by Mohamad Hamdan Dagalo, has been engaged in a brutal war against the country\u2019s army, headed by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, for more than nine months. The war has left about half of Sudan\u2019s 49 million people in need of aid, and more than 7.5 million have fled their homes, according to the UN.
\nDagalo controls most of Sudan\u2019s western region Darfur and parts of the capital Khartoum. The RSF has recently also taken control of Wad Madani, one of Sudan\u2019s major cities.
\nThe paramilitary group has been accused, along with Arab armed groups, of killing up to 15,000 non-Arabs from the Masalit tribe in attacks that \u201cmay amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity,\u201d read the report.<\/p>\n

The RSF has previously denied the accusations and said any of its soldiers found to be involved would face justice.
\n\u201cThe attacks were planned, coordinated, and executed by RSF and their allied Arab militias,\u201d the sanctions monitors wrote in their annual report to the 15-member Security Council.
\nIn December, the United States formally determined that warring parties in Sudan committed war crimes and that the RSF and allied militias had also committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.
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\nThe UN report said that \u201ccomplex financial networks established by RSF before and during the war enabled it to acquire weapons, pay salaries, fund media campaigns, lobby, and buy the support of other political and armed groups\u201d.
\nIt added that the paramilitary group used proceeds from its pre-war gold business to create a network of as many as 50 companies in several industries.
\nSince the war started \u201cmost of the gold, which was previously exported to UAE, was now smuggled to Egypt,\u201d the monitors said.
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\nThe new firepower acquired by the RSF \u201chad a massive impact on the balance of forces, both in Darfur and other regions of Sudan,\u201d the report found.
\nThe European Council (EC) imposed sanctions on six companies for their alleged involvement in financing and arming both warring sides.
\nAmong the companies sanctioned were three controlled by the Sudanese army, including the Defense Industries System conglomerate, which Brussels said had estimated revenues of $2bn in 2020.
\nThe other three companies sanctioned were involved in procuring military equipment\u00a0for the RSF.
\nThe war has left nearly half of Sudan\u2019s 49 million people needing aid: More than 7.5 million people have fled their homes, making Sudan the biggest displacement crisis globally, and hunger is rising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Agencies – Sudan Events\u00a0 The United Arab Emirates has denied arming the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in its war against the Sudanese army, the Financial Times has reported, after a leaked UN report said it had \u201ccredible\u201d evidence that the Gulf country was providing military support to the paramilitary group. According to the UN document, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12475,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473\/revisions\/12475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}