Sudan urges international community action over UAE’s alleged support for RSF

NEW YORK, Nov. 05 (YPA) – The Sudanese ambassador to the UN urged the international community on Tuesday to pile the pressure on the United Arab Emirates, accusing it of supplying weapons and military equipment to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) amid Sudan’s ongoing conflict, which began in April 2023.

The supplier of arms to the RSF “is very well known. Unfortunately, it is the UAE,” Hassan Hamid, the ambassador of Sudan’s army-aligned government to the United Nations in Geneva, said.

“Sudan repeatedly calls upon the international community to act today with… public decisive pressure on the United Arab Emirates to cease immediately arming and financing such terrorist militia,” he told reporters.

The Sudanese diplomat warned that continued foreign support would “exacerbate human rights violations and lead to further atrocities,” adding that international inaction would be seen as a “green light” for the RSF to continue its crimes and for the UAE to keep supplying weapons.

Hamid’s remarks come amid escalating fighting in western Sudan, following the fall of El-Fasher to the Rapid Support Forces, which has allowed them to seize control of all five state capitals in Darfur, raising fears of a de facto partition of Sudan along an east-west axis.

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