Sudan has accused the United Arab Emirates of complexity in massacre in filing one in the International Court of Court, which is in the headlines on the alleged participation of an oil-rich politician in a disastrous civil war.
The UAE has long been accused of supporting the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) by Sudan and others, who have been fighting regular army for almost two years – an allegation that denies the Gulf State.
How does Sudan include UAE, and what are the relationships for RSF?
Why is Sudan important for UAE?
One of the largest countries in Africa, Sudan has a treasure of natural resources including huge agricultural land, gas and gold, of which it is the third largest producer in the continent.
This neighbor Libya, where Abu Dhabi supports rebel authorities, and has a beach on the Red Sea – an important sea route for oil shipping.
In 2021, Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Boran seized power in a coup with his deputy, RSF commander Mohammad Hamdan Daglo, known as Hemati.
Two years later there was a fight between the two generals, accusing one side or the other with powers including the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Turkey, Iran and Russia.
“The primary goal for the UAE in Sudan has been a strategically very important influence in a strategically very important country in Sudan, a Middle East Security Specialist at King’s College London.
He said that Emirati state-bound companies see Sudan as a center for investing in resources, minerals and business.
Sudan researcher Hamid Khalfallah said that desert UAE is interested in natural resources, including minerals and arable land.
From Libya to Somalia, “We see a pattern of UAE working with paramilitary to take advantage of the continent’s resources”.
The development group Swissad estimated in a report last year that in 2022, 66.5 percent of African gold exports were smuggled to the United Arab Emirates.
The UAE, a major center for gold trade, is the top buyer of the world in the world’s precious metal from Sudan, a region that is controlled by large -scale dagls.
But International Relations Professor Federico Donley said that it would be “very simple” to say the interests of the UAE about gold.
Abu Dhabi is also demanding to combat Saudi influence in Sudan and stop the spread of political Islam, which he looks as a threat to his safety, he said.
What link to RSF?
Sudan joined Sudan’s military stem in collaboration in Yemen, followed by Khartum in the Saudi -led coalition in 2015.
Burhan led Sudani, who fought under the Saudi, while the RSF of Daglo was deployed with UAE soldiers, Donley had earlier told the Nordic Africa Institute.
There have been changes between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi between traditionally close colleagues. Donley said, although UAE supports, “to challenge Saudi objectives” said, “to challenge”.
This relationship is also ideological, the Muslim Brotherhood with the RSF is ready to include the political movement, which has been declared by the UAE and other Arab states, Kriag said.
It separates the RSF from the army, which has been associated with the remains of the Islamist rule of former dictator Omar al-Bashir.
Both sides have faced claims of war crimes during Sudan’s bitter conflict, which have killed tens of thousand people and uprooted over 12 million.
But in January, Washington accused the RSF of genocide, to target caste groups with mass murders and gang rape.
Also in January, two US lawmakers said the UAE had broken its promises to stop the RSF from providing military assistance.
Daglo’s private finance is run from the UAE, said Kieg said, saying that he had become “co-depended” on Abu Dhabi.
The RSF has received significant support from the UAE, which includes arms delivery through neighboring Chad, diplomatic, analysts and human rights groups.
The UAE denied the allegations.
Will the case affect UAE?
Sudan filed its case against the UAE in the ICJ, claiming a complication in the massacre on the alleged support of Abu Dhabi for the RSF, the top United Nations court in Hague.
The UAE dismissed the case as a “promotional stunt” and said it would try to throw it out.
The ICJ rules are legally binding, but there is no power to implement them in court.
Donley said the UAE was likely to suffer the prestigious loss in the case.
“Both international and within Africa, the growing perception of Emirates as an unstable actor,” he told AFP.
But “Financial and political prominence that UAE has received in the last decade will probably mold it with any serious consequences”.
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