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🇸🇩 For years, the UAE has worked to shut down or bury UN scrutiny of its role in Sudan and other wars and atrocities, much of it while Emirati Minister of State Lana Nusseibeh, now a candidate for UN secretary-general, served as its UN ambassador (2013-2024). The New York Times laid out the following record: ➤ Sudan, July 2026: The UN Panel of Experts on Sudan, which monitors the arms embargo on Darfur, told the Security Council that "the U.A.E. supported the R.S.F. by providing mercenaries," Colombians trained at two military bases in Abu Dhabi. The report was never published. Bahrain, which holds a seat on the Council, blocked it, and a senior UN official and a regional diplomat told The Times that Bahrain acted at the UAE's request. ➤ Sudan, last week: The same panel sent the Council a new confidential report naming Global Security Services Group, an Abu Dhabi firm, as the company that hired the Colombian mercenaries, known as the "Desert Wolves,” confirming press reports including from the FT. The panel says the firm has close political, business and family ties to the Emirati ruling family. The Times and FT have reported it was founded by a senior official in the UAE presidency, and the firm calls itself "a preferred security provider" for the Emirati Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Presidential Affairs. The report traces how it moved the fighters into Sudan through territory held by UAE-backed forces in Libya and Somalia. ➤ Yemen, 2021: Saudi Arabia and the UAE successfully lobbied the UN Human Rights Council to shut down its Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen. It was the only international body investigating rights violations in the war, in which Emirati troops were deployed. ➤ Libya, 2016: As UN investigators accused the UAE of arming warlord Khalifa Haftar, an Emirati official wrote to Nusseibeh: "The fact of the matter is that the U.A.E. violated the Security Council resolution on Libya and continues to do so." The email was accidentally sent to the UN, which published it with the writer's name redacted. The Times identifies him as Ahmed al-Qasimi, a diplomat on Nusseibeh's staff. ➤ European Parliament, November 2025: As lawmakers drafted a resolution condemning atrocities in Sudan weeks after the RSF's capture of El Fasher, Nusseibeh led the UAE's push to keep it from implicating Abu Dhabi, Politico reported, personally lobbying members of Parliament. The resolution passed without a single mention of the UAE. The UAE "rejects as unfounded" claims that it influenced any Security Council member and Bahrain did not respond to The New York Times. The UAE sponsors the RSF's genocide and mass rape campaign in Sudan.