What the United Arab Emirates is doing in Sudan is not a mystery hidden in footnotes. It is a story told by flight manifests that never appear, by licenses that officials say do not exist but later show up in sanctions filings, by passports found in wreckage and weapons that move along desert roads while publicists draft statements about hospitals and aid. The RSF — a force born from the Janjaweed that ravaged Darfur — has besieged cities, emptied neighborhoods, and hunted families.
In El‑Fasher, the killing escalated again after the city fell: door‑to‑door executions, a massacre in the Saudi Maternity Hospital, tens of thousands fleeing with whatever they could carry. If you only skim the headlines, you might think this is just another far‑off “civil war.” But when you slow down and look at the receipts, a different picture comes into focus: the RSF’s capacity to sustain these crimes depends on external lifelines — and the UAE is the most consequential of them.
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