ReutersSudan is taking the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of supporting Sudan’s paramilitary Fast Help Forces (RSF) within the civil conflict.
Khartoum argues the UAE is “complicit within the genocide” of the Masalit group, in West Darfur, by its navy, monetary and political backing for the RSF.
In response, the UAE has strongly rejected Sudan’s allegations, calling the case a “cynical publicity stunt”, and saying it’ll search an instantaneous dismissal.
Because the conflict started in April 2023, each the RSF and the Sudanese military have been accused of committing atrocities.
The RSF has been accused of committing a genocide in Darfur – in opposition to the area’s non-Arabic teams.
In line with information company AFP, Sudan’s submission to the ICJ says: “The United Arab Emirates fuels the insurrection and helps the militia that has dedicated the crime of genocide in West Darfur.
“The United Arab Emirates should make full reparation for the damage prompted (by) its internationally wrongful acts, together with paying reimbursement to the victims of the conflict.”
An unnamed UAE official stated that “the allegations introduced by the SAF consultant on the ICJ lack any authorized or factual foundation, representing yet one more try and distract from this calamitous conflict”.
UN consultants monitoring the arms embargo on Darfur have beforehand described accusations of the UAE smuggling weapons to the RSF by Chad as credible.
The ICJ’s advisory opinion is just not legally binding however nonetheless carries vital political weight.
The almost two-year conflict has devastated Sudan, with tens of hundreds killed and over 12 million folks displaced, fuelling one of many world’s worst humanitarian crises.
Earlier this week, heavy shelling on a camp for displaced folks in North Dafur left dozens of individuals feared lifeless.
A crowded market in Abu Shouk, a camp on the outskirts of the town of el-Fasher, was attacked for roughly two hours on Tuesday night, a neighborhood official informed the NUZTO.
