SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Security Council threatens to slap sanctions on Darfur groups

26/2/2021: Sudan Tribune - Security Council threatens to slap sanctions on Darfur groups

 Sudan Tribune report that the UN Security Council Sudan Sanctions Committee threatened to sanction all Darfur armed groups, whether signatory or non-signatory to the Juba peace agreement, for impeding peace and destabilising regional stability.

The committee reported that rebel groups engaged in extensive recruitment campaigns and recruited child soldiers to maximise their leverage in the implementation of security arrangements. Sudan Tribune add that the groups “consolidated their relations with Libyan parties and their backers particularly: the UAE, who convinced them to leave some troops in Libya.”

The committee also stated that Abdelwahid al-Nur’s Sudan Liberation Movement faction (SLM-AW) increased its capability by recruiting new fighters and purchasing weapons, thanks to gold mines in Jebel Marra, with the inter-fighting between the different rebel reportedly displacing over 20,000 civilians, the rebels reportedly committing human rights violations.