2024-04-27 22:49:49
Sudan has submitted a request to hold an emergency session of the UN Security Council to discuss the UAE’s “aggression once morest the Sudanese people” and its support for the Rapid Support Forces in the war they are waging with the army, according to a Sudanese diplomat. an official told AFP on Saturday.
The official, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “Yesterday (Friday), our permanent representative to the United Nations submitted a request to hold an emergency session of the Security Council to discuss the aggression of United Arab Emirates once morest the Sudanese people and the supply of weapons. and equipment to the terrorist militia.
Furthermore, the Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) reported that Khartoum’s representative, Al-Harith Idris, submitted the request “in response to the memorandum of the UAE representative to the Council”, and stressed that “the UAE support for the rapid support criminal militia that waged war once morest the state makes the UAE complicit in all their crimes.
Tension has been rising for months between the Sudanese army led by Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, who practically holds power in the country, and the United Arab Emirates. The military accuses Abu Dhabi of supporting the Rapid Support Forces and its commander, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, in the conflict that erupted between them in April 2023.
Abu Dhabi rejected the accusations in a letter to the Security Council last week.
She said: “All allegations related to the involvement of the UAE in any form of aggression or destabilization in Sudan, or the provision of military, logistical, financial or political support to any faction in Sudan, are baseless allegations and lack reliable evidence to support them. them. » The message published by the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs on its website.
Separately, on Saturday, the UN Security Council expressed “deep concern” over the escalation of fighting in Sudan’s North Darfur region, warning of the possibility of an imminent attack by Support Forces rapid and allied groups once morest El Fasher.
El Fasher is the only capital among the capitals of the five Darfur states that is not controlled by the Rapid Support Forces.
The war in Sudan has killed thousands and pushed the country of 48 million people to the brink of famine, destroyed already dilapidated infrastructure and displaced more than 8.5 million people, according to the United Nations.
In December, Sudan asked 15 Emirati diplomats to leave the country following a prominent army commander accused Abu Dhabi of supporting the Rapid Support Forces. This coincided with protests in the eastern city of Port Sudan, demanding the expulsion of the Emirati ambassador.
In August last year, the US Wall Street Journal cited Ugandan officials as saying that weapons had been found on board an Emirati cargo plane meant to be carrying humanitarian aid to Sudanese refugees in Chad. The United Arab Emirates has denied these reports.
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