‘UAE has encircled Sudan in a ring of fire’ research team tells US Congress and links Kenya and Ethiopia to Darfur killings
Tiny in size but enormously wealthy, the Emirates supports a network of factions across the region to spread its influence. In long-divided Libya, the UAE has supported forces of the military strongman Khalifa Hifter against Islamist and other militias based in the capital, Tripoli.
With 150,000 people killed and 12 million displaced, Sudan’s Darfur region stares at another genocide
Two-and-a-half years since the war started, the situation is at its most volatile, exacerbating the suffering of the Sudanese people and threatening regional stability. African and international action has been slow. Unchecked, history is doomed to repeat itself.
WHO: Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces ‘cold-bloodedly killed everyone they found inside Saudi Hospital’
UN refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic and politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee, and others shot as they tried to escape.
