Analysts monitoring the flow of weapons supplies to Sudan all confirm that the supply of weapons to the genocidal Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is still ongoing through various routes. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), which sources and supplies the RSF with weapons, is currently also bidding for the position of United Nations Secretary-General with its candidate, Lana Nusseibeh.
A recently published investigation by ICAD shows that weapons supplies and trucks are still being supplied to the RSF via Libya through the Kufra and Chadian Triangle route. Khalifa Haftar, who rules eastern Libya under a military dictatorship with his army, which is also backed by the UAE, has been a consistent facilitator and backer of the RSF.
Last year, Khalifa Haftar entered into a border war as he backed the RSF against the Sudanese Armed Forces. Subsequently, Haftar’s Libyan Army took control of the Sudanese border and enabled the RSF to advance deeper into Sudan. However, due to recent RSF losses in North Kordofan, RSF units at the Sudan-Libyan border have been cut off from the rest of the RSF-held territories, and the RSF forces at the Libyan border are now completely dependent on Haftar’s army.
Meanwhile, UAE weapons supplies to Ethiopia are also continuing, as shown by OSINT analyst Rich Tedd. Some of these shipments may be intended for Ethiopia, but weapons transports, including trucks delivered to Ethiopia, have often ended up in Sudan.
Lana Nusseibeh has consistently denied that the UAE provides weapons to the RSF. Several UN reports had already reported that the UAE was providing weapons to the RSF.
So far, the Costa Rican candidate Rebecca Grynspan, is ahead of Lana Nusseibeh at the UNSC and the this is Latin America’s turn to appoint a Secretary-General according to the informal continental rotational agreement at the UNSC.
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