UAE Says Sudan Military Plane Bombed Ambassador’s Residence
(Bloomberg) -- The United Arab Emirates said a Sudanese military aircraft struck the residence of its ambassador to the war-torn African nation, further stoking tensions between the Gulf country and the Sudanese authorities.
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The building in the capital, Khartoum, was badly damaged in the attack that the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs described in a statement as “cowardly.” It didn’t say whether Head of Mission Hamad Mohammed AlJneibi was present or hurt in the attack.
The OPEC nation said it will file a complaint to the Arab League, the African Union and the United Nations over the strike.
Sudan’s army denied it bombed the residence, noting in a statement that it “only targets areas where the RSF militia is present,” referring to the Rapid Support Forces, which has been at war with the military since April 2023. The army has repeatedly accused the UAE of supporting the RSF, though the UAE denies any involvement in the conflict.
The UAE has supplied the RSF with guns and heavy weaponry through an airstrip under its control in the Chadian city of Amdjarass, according to UN investigators and Western officials. Both Iran and Russia have backed the army, in what has become a proxy war that risks splitting the country in two.
In recent days, Sudan’s army launched an offensive into parts of Khartoum that were previously under RSF control. The push came as the army’s leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, accused foreign proxies of fueling the violence in a speech at the UN General Assembly last week.
Germany, France, the United States and the European Union convened a ministerial meeting on Sudan last week in New York, where they said the fighting was causing “devastating suffering across the country.” The countries also called on the warring parties to implement “localized humanitarian pauses” to ensure access to parts of the country most in need of aid.
The RSF has focused its military efforts on the city of El-Fasher in North Darfur, the last remaining city in the west of the country that’s still controlled by the army.
(Updates with comment by Sudanese army in fourth paragraph)
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