SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: PassBlue - Sudan Steps Up Damning Accusations Against the UAE at the UN
Two summarys
UAE silencing Sudan at the UN
PassBlue report that Sudan’s UN ambassador Al-Harith Idriss accuses the UAE of using its influence on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to avoid accountability for supporting the Rapid Support militia (RSF).
When the UAE was an elected member of the UNSC from January 2022 to December 2023 it “kept Sudan off the agenda”. Sudan’s requests for open emergency meetings in April and May 2024 were rebuffed by monthly rotating presidents Malta and Mozambique respectively, who held private consultations meaning Idriss could not participate.
Malta said it was because the Sudanese ambassador sent his request in Arabic. PassBlue note that the UNSC has no written rule on language requirements.
Analyst Cameron Hudson said: “We have underestimated the destructive and irresponsible power of the UAE [who] used the fact that it controls five major ports in Mozambique to make sure that Mozambique did not host a meeting investigating allegations against the UAE.”
2. Hudson insights on diplomatic efforts to stop the war
PassBlue reported on diplomatic efforts to stop the war in Sudan, with insights from Cameron Hudson of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
With army commander Abdulfattah al-Burhan refusing to resume the US-Saudi brokered Jeddah peace talks, Hudson said: “there is a higher bar set for the Army than for the [Rapid Support Forces]…unfairly, there’s an expectation that the armed forces is the party that needs to uphold all of these standards because we hold the government of Sudan responsible for…what happens inside the country”.
With Hudson adding that the UN Security Council resolution to end the RSF siege on Al-Fashir “comes much too late to save many [who have and] will die because of the existing conditions.”
PassBlue noted that the resolution did not call out the UAE, who Sudan’s government say has provided weapons used to displace and kill predominantly non-Arab groups and rape hundreds of women.