{"id":50915,"date":"2025-07-04T01:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=50915"},"modified":"2025-07-04T01:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:12:13","slug":"greek-newspaper-how-germany-became-entangled-in-sudans-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/greek-newspaper-how-germany-became-entangled-in-sudans-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Newspaper: How Germany Became Entangled in Sudan\u2019s War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sudan Events \u2013 Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Far from the eyes of the Middle East, Berlin continues \u2014 with money and weapons \u2014 to commit a crime that has cost the lives of millions of civilians in Sudan. All this, supposedly, for the “interest” of Europe.<\/p>\n

Even Germans could hardly believe their ears when Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared a few days ago that Israel was “doing the dirty work” on behalf of the West by bombing Iran. Torsten Frei, the Minister of the Chancellery, described Iran as a “terrorist regime!” At the same time, Berlin is “doing the dirty work” on behalf of Europeans in Sudan.<\/p>\n

Following the ousting of dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019, major powers \u2014 especially Germany and the European Union \u2014 played a significant political, military, and economic role.<\/p>\n

As reported by EUObserver, German involvement went beyond rhetoric, including the indirect transfer of weapons via third countries, funding anti-migration programs that empowered armed groups, and channeling development aid through disorganized government institutions to criminal networks.<\/p>\n

But all of this helped pave the way for today\u2019s war.<\/p>\n

German Weapons to Sudan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the official arms embargo imposed on Sudan after the Darfur conflict, multiple reports confirm that German weapons \u2014 especially those produced by Heckler & Koch \u2014 have continued to appear in Sudan through intermediaries.<\/p>\n

Germany has exported weapons worth billions of euros to Gulf countries and Egypt, both of which are directly involved in the conflict \u2014 a fact Berlin is fully aware of.<\/p>\n

Egyptian journalist Shaimaa Sami notes: \u201cThrough these channels, German weapons and military equipment found their way into Sudan\u2019s battlefields, indirectly pointing to Germany\u2019s involvement in arming both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is worth recalling that during the Cold War, West Germany closely cooperated with Sudan, leading to the establishment of infrastructure like the Fritz Werner ammunition factory near Khartoum in the late 1960s \u2014 a legacy that, according to some analysts, shaped aspects of Sudan\u2019s militarization.<\/p>\n

European Funds for Terrorists<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2014, the European Union launched the “Khartoum Process” to curb illegal migration from the Horn of Africa, with Germany playing a key role in financing related implementation projects.<\/p>\n

In reality, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) \u2014 accused of committing crimes against humanity \u2014 benefited from EU-backed border monitoring programs such as the “Better Migration Management” initiative, led by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), according to Shaimaa Sami.<\/p>\n

EUObserver reported: \u201cThese programs effectively strengthened the RSF\u2019s role in monitoring Sudan\u2019s borders, raising concerns about indirect European support for abusive actors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Europe outsourced part of its border control to Sudanese forces, including the RSF, funding programs that provided surveillance equipment like cameras, scanners, servers, communication systems, and vehicles such as Toyota Hilux and Land Cruisers.<\/p>\n

While this equipment was intended for border management under EU-funded initiatives like the Better Migration Management (BMM) program, the RSF reportedly used it \u2014 as Sami notes \u2014 to suppress internal protests.<\/p>\n

For example, in June 2019, at least 186 civilians were killed during a sit-in protest in Khartoum.<\/p>\n

Development Aid and Financial Agreements<\/strong><\/p>\n

After Bashir\u2019s fall, Germany and its European partners rushed to support Sudan\u2019s transitional government through international donor conferences and generous funding pledges.<\/p>\n

However, most of these funds were channeled into infrastructure and institutional support \u2014 through state apparatuses still controlled by the military or allied technocrats.<\/p>\n

According to Oxfam, only 3% of the EU\u2019s Emergency Trust Fund for Africa was allocated to support local communities or safe migration pathways. The overwhelming majority went to border control and security systems.<\/p>\n

Twenty Years of Criminal Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sami notes: \u201cOver the past twenty years, European \u2014 particularly German \u2014 policy toward Sudan has been marked by short-term pragmatism: a focus on migration control and stability rather than responsibility and reform.\u201d<\/p>\n

This approach has empowered the warring parties \u2014 whether through indirect arms transfers, security cooperation, or opaque aid flows.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s and the EU\u2019s responsibility extends not only to what was done, but also to what was neglected: failing to impose sanctions after the 2021 coup, lacking pressure to disarm militias, and being unable to protect Sudan\u2019s fragile transition from military interference. Today, Sudanese civilians are paying the price \u2014 through displacement, sexual violence, mass killings, and state collapse.<\/p>\n

This, in some ways, softens the sense of commitment felt by the German Chancellor \u2014 herself a descendant of a Nazi official \u2014 toward Israel\u2019s criminal occupying forces and their actions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sudan Events \u2013 Agencies Far from the eyes of the Middle East, Berlin continues \u2014 with money and weapons \u2014 to commit a crime that has cost the lives of millions of civilians in Sudan. All this, supposedly, for the “interest” of Europe. Even Germans could hardly believe their ears when Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50915","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\/50915","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=50915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50917,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50915\/revisions\/50917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}