Samira/سميرة🖤

New reporting suggests that 7 Israeli technicians arrived in Nyala this weekend to operate and train RSF on the use of a Chinese-made air defense system provided by the UAE to secure the airspace from SAF drone attacks. Just another step in the escalation of the war.

97 drones launched from Ethiopia carried out 28 attacks against civilian and military targets inside Sudan last month alone. Sudan has been been calling this out since it started last year. This report makes clear that Ethiopia has been fully instrumentalized as a tool in the UAE aggression in Sudan. And yet. No action has been taken. No Security Council session. No independent Panel of Experts report. UN transparency and accountability mechanisms have broken down or been bought off or both. It reminds me of Sudan's report two years ago to the Security Council that first alleged a UAE role supporting the RSF via Chad. That report went nowhere. No public hearing because Emirati officials strong-armed Security Council diplomats into burying the report. Two years later the war is even worse, the UAE role even more expansive, and the Sudanese still collecting intelligence on the regional war being fought against them. Mind you, the SAF are no angels. They have carried out their own internal crimes, have supported the TPLF to varying degrees and may have even allowed their drones to be used against targets inside Ethiopia, though Addis has not done a sufficient job providing conclusive evidence of that. The fact is that for all the condemnations that the UN makes about failures of the parties in Sudan's war to sign a ceasefire and protect civilians, those same parties have an equally powerful argument to make against the UN for completely failing in its mandate to report on the conflict, investigate its crimes and hold parties accountable.