Washington, USA (Nilepost) – Under the above title, Alyson Chadwick, wrote an interesting well documented article in the US-based website, Daily Kos, Monday, June 8, 2026, she started with a strong statement asserting that “The Rapid Support Forces are burning Darfur to the ground. Behind them, every step of the way is Abu Dhabi.”
But the author backed his claims with detailed arguments and statistics that pinned the Arab Gulf emirates in the fiasco which it has been denying for months and years since the outbreak of the war in April 2023.
The result of the war is that more than 150,000 people dead — some estimates range as high as 522,000. Over 12 million displaced the largest displacement crisis on the planet. Famine declared across multiple regions. An 18-month siege on the city of El Fasher culminating in a “three days of horror” in late October 2025, during which RSF fighters rampaged through the city, killing, raping, and forcibly disappearing thousands — while openly announcing their ethnic targets: “We want to eliminate anything black from Darfur.”
The writer reiterated her claims that “this is Sudan in 2026. And behind the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carrying out these atrocities stands a wealthy, well-connected Gulf state with deep ties to Washington, London, and the global financial system: the United Arab Emirates.”
And she posed a legitimate question when she asked Who Are the RSF?
The Rapid Support Forces are a paramilitary militia that grew out of the infamous Janjaweed — the Arab militias that carried out the Darfur genocide of the early 2000s, which killed hundreds of thousands and prompted then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to use the word “genocide” before the U.S. Senate. The RSF was formalized under former dictator Omar al-Bashir, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as “Hemedti,” a former camel trader turned warlord who built an empire on Darfur’s gold.
She rightly pointed out that what followed the outbreak of the war in 2023 was not a conventional civil war — it was, for the non-Arab communities of Darfur, a continuation and intensification of the genocide they had already survived once before.
And she provided an inventory as to the pattern, for it proves that this was not isolated incident but a “pattern” a calculated action with expected and anticipated outcome:-
– At El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, at least 15,000 people — primarily Masalit and other non-Arab communities — were massacred as the RSF took control.
– By 2024, rights groups and an UN-commissioned report had found that the RSF was committing genocide against the Masalit people.
– By late 2025, the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission concluded that RSF conduct during the takeover of El Fasher showed “hallmarks of genocide,” specifically finding that three underlying acts of genocide had been committed: killing members of a protected ethnic group, causing serious bodily and mental harm, and deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to bring about a group’s physical destruction.
“The RSF didn’t just kill. They besieged El Fasher for 18 months, systematically cutting off food, water, medicine, and humanitarian access. The Zamzam camp — once Sudan’s largest displacement camp, home to hundreds of thousands of people who had survived the first Darfur genocide — was the site of a famine declaration in August 2024. MSF trucks carrying food were blocked by RSF fighters from reaching starving civilians.” She stressed.
– Enter the UAE
The author claimed that “None of this happens without outside support. And the evidence pointing to the UAE as the RSF’s primary foreign backer has become overwhelming.”
Sudan filed a case at the International Court of Justice in March 2025, formally accusing the UAE of being complicit in genocide “through its direction of and provision of extensive financial, political and military support for the rebel RSF militia.”
Though the ICJ dismissed the case in May 2025 on jurisdictional grounds — a ruling that activists and legal scholars noted said nothing about the merits of the underlying allegations — the proceedings shone a harsh light on Abu Dhabi’s conduct.
– The evidence, compiled from UN panels, investigative journalists, human rights organizations, and government intelligence, tells a consistent story:
– But the writer made a detailed inventory as of the entities, organizations and media that compiled evidence incriminating the UAE
– March 2024 UAE was found in violating international arms embargoes by supplying weapons, armored vehicles, and drones to the RSF.
– Amnesty International documented Emirati-made armored personnel carriers in RSF hands.
– The Sudanese Armed Forces have recovered UAE-origin ammunition, vehicles, and weapons systems from RSF fighters.
– The New York Times cited evidence of Emirati weapons shipments disguised as humanitarian aid.
– UN panels of experts found “credible allegations” of large arms transfers routed through neighboring Chad and Libya, with airports in Amdjarass and Abéché reportedly serving as hubs for UAE-backed cargo flights.
But this is one side of the UAE involvement according to this article.
The article said Gold was involved in the matter
“Before a single shot was fired, Dubai was already the RSF’s financial lifeline. Hemedti built his power base on controlling Sudan’s gold mines, and the UAE was his most important customer.
She added that since the outbreak war of the war in 2023, the RSF has expanded this operation dramatically.
– In 2024 alone, the UAE imported roughly 29 tons of gold from Sudan — a 70% increase from the previous year, even as international embargoes targeted conflict gold exports.
– Estimates put the value of gold smuggled from RSF-controlled territories at over $850 million in 2024 and early 2025.
– Approximately 90% of smuggled Sudanese gold, “according to multiple investigators, ends up in the UAE, either directly or through intermediaries in South Sudan, Chad, Libya, and Egypt. “The article argued.
“The gold flows one way; guns and military support flow the other.” It argued.
The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) in the UK has pointed out that “British military equipment sold to the UAE has been found in RSF hands — a scandal that implicates not just Abu Dhabi but London’s own export control failures”. Of 22 individual export licenses for the UAE refused by the UK between 2015 and 2024, 21 were refused specifically because the UAE is a known “diversion risk” — meaning the equipment might end up somewhere other than its stated destination. The UK government knew this, flagged it repeatedly, and kept selling anyway.
It added that in the United States, lawmakers from both parties have moved to hold major arms sales to the UAE over its support for the RSF. The Biden administration formally determined that the RSF committed genocide. But meaningful pressure on Abu Dhabi has remained largely absent from U.S. foreign policy.
The writer claimed that “the RSF’s war machine runs on Sudanese gold laundered through Dubai and weapons shipped — sometimes literally labeled as humanitarian aid — from UAE-connected suppliers. Without that external lifeline, this war looks very different.”
It argued that in late October 2025, the RSF captured El Fasher, Darfur’s last major city under government control, after 18 months of siege. In the days that followed, RSF fighters systematically hunted non-Arab men and boys, committed mass rape, and carried out what UN investigators would later describe as acts bearing “the hallmarks of genocide.” Thousands were killed in the first three days alone. Tens of thousands more in the weeks that followed.
The Masalit, Fur, Zaghawa, and other non-Arab communities of Darfur have now survived — or been destroyed by — two separate genocides in the span of twenty years, perpetrated by the same forces, driven by the same ideology of Arab supremacism, and enabled by the same international indifference.
The Center for American Progress has outlined steps Congress can take: specifically targeting the networks of shell companies through which RSF gold is laundered, imposing sanctions on UAE-linked entities facilitating the arms trade, and conditioning future arms sales to the UAE on verified cessation of support for the RSF.
It added that beyond Congress, the international community needs to treat this for what it is: a situation in which a wealthy, Western-allied state is directly financing and arming a genocidal militia, using the infrastructure of global capitalism — gold refineries, shell companies, cargo planes, and diplomatic cover — to fund mass murder.
