Sudan junta and UAE bicker on who’s to blame for atrocities

Sudanese soldiers at the presidential palace in the capital of Khartoum, on March 24, 2025.

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Sudan’s military government and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) seem to have entered into a lobbying rivalry, fighting mudslinging on who should be blamed for atrocities in Khartoum’s two-year war.

The accusations begun at press conferences last year when Port Sudan (the temporary seat of the military government under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan) accused the UAE of arming the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group at war with the Sudanese armed forces.