Sudan has filed a case against the United Arab Emirates (EAU) in the International Court of Justice (ICI), accusing the Gulf nation of helping the paramilitary fast support forces (RSF) in the current civil war.
Jartum states that the EAU are “accomplices in the genocide” of the Masalit community in western Darfur through military, financial and political support for the RSF.
The EAU have strongly rejected the accusations, dismissing the case as a “cynical advertising trick” and promising to seek their immediate dismissal.
Since the war broke out in April 2023, both the RSF and the Sudanese army have faced accusations of committing atrocities.
The RSF has been specifically accused of carrying out the genocide in Darfur, aimed at the non -Arab communities in the region.
According to the news agency, AFP, the submission of Sudan to the ICJ states: “The United Arab Emirates feed the rebellion and supports the militia that has committed the crime of genocide in western Darfur. The United Arab Emirates must make a complete reparation for the injury caused (by) their internationally unfair acts, including the payment of reimbursement to the victims of the war. “
An unidentified EAU official dismissed Sudan's claims, stating: “The accusations presented by the SAF representative in the ICJ lack a legal or objective basis, which represents another attempt to distract from this Calamite war.”
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UN experts who monitor the embargo of weapons in Darfur have previously described the accusations that the EAU introduced contraband weapons to the RSF through Chad as credible. While CIJ's advisory opinion is not legally binding, it has a significant political weight.
The war of almost two years has devastated Sudan, with tens of thousands of dead and more than 12 million displaced people, feeding one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
Earlier this week, the heavy bombardment in a camp for displaced people in northern Darfur left feared dozens. A local official told the BBC that a market full of people in Abu Shouk, a camp on the outskirts of El-Fafasher, was attacked for approximately two hours on Tuesday night.
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