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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Husam Mahjoub

It’s an open secret: the UAE is fuelling Sudan’s war – and there’ll be no peace until we call it out

Members of the Sudanese Armed Forces parading in Karima city, Northern State, in May 2024.
Members of the Sudanese Armed Forces parading in Karima city, Northern State, in May 2024. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The war in Sudan has become one of the worst ongoing humanitarian crises in the world. In a little over a year of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), there have been 6.8 million people internally displaced, 2 million fleeing the country, and 24.8 million, almost half the population, in dire need of humanitarian assistance.

The United Arab Emirates is the foreign player most invested in the war. In fact, without its direct and all-around support, the RSF would not have been able to wage war to the same extent.

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