Displacement & Refugees

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The UAE has been accused of coercing international diplomacy, with Minni Minnawi - the governor of the Darfur region of western Sudan - stating the Emirates has “so much money that it silences prominent people in the UN Security Council”. Minnawi is the leader of the Darfur Joint Protection Force (also known as the Joint Forces), a coalition of armed movements that predominantly recruit from Darfur’s non-Arab communities. Having rebelled against the Sudanese state in the early 2000s, groups that form the Joint Forces are now allied to the Sudanese army as it fights the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) - an Arab supremacist militia that has perpetrated atrocities in Darfur that the UN said “bear the hallmarks of g*nocide.” Nonetheless, Minnawi’s claim that UAE has the money to silence key voices at the UN Security Council points to a widely held belief that Emirati financial leverage is a decisive factor in the international community’s failure to act decisively against the RSF. A recent report by a UN fact-finding mission confirmed that the UAE has been supporting the RSF through the provision of weapons, logistics, and foreign fighters. This support enabled the RSF’s siege of North Darfur state capital Al-Fashir which culminated in late 2025 with waves of massacres that UN investigators described as g*nocidal. The UAE’s war on Sudan is facilitated through the neighbouring countries, whereby arms for the RSF are funnelled through Libya, Chad and Ethiopia. As a result, those countries form what analysts describe as a ‘ring of fire’ around Sudan, whereby Emirati petro-dollars are leveraged to ensure support for the UAE’s war on Sudan. “If the Joint Forces were after money, they would go to the sponsor,” Minnawi said, in reference to the UAE. However, the Darfur governor declared that the Joint Forces are “honourable patriots”. “Any traitor who cursed this country, may God curse him,” Minnawi said.

Today, more than 20 years after the Janjaweed militia and allied Sudanese groups first targeted the Fur and other communities in Darfur, the International Criminal Court has finally heard from civil society about what reparations should look like for victims of former Janjaweed commander Ali Kushayb. Last year, Kushayb was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur between 2003 and 2004. He is the first - and so far only - perpetrator held accountable for international crimes committed in Sudan. But the focus now is on the victims. Many continue to experience profound harms and live in highly vulnerable situations. Kushayb's conviction presents a rare opportunity for the Court to address some of their most urgent needs. Together with Rights for Peace, Darfur Women Action Group Uganda, Darfur Network for Human Rights and Queen's University Belfast, REDRESS has urged the Court to adopt a creative and pragmatic approach to reparations that is co-designed with victims and can adapt to their changing needs and circumstances. ▶️ Watch to learn learn more.

Schizo Armchair General Presents: East/Horn of Africa- The Geopolitical Tinderbox no one is talking about 🇸🇴🇪🇹🇪🇷🇸🇸🇸🇩🇪🇬 After my last Schizo Armchair General post about the Iran War, I got a lot of interesting feedback and may make this a recurring series for my fellow armchair generals on this subreddit. I am not an expert on geopolitical and military matters, just an autistic schizo who obsesses over them. Today I want to talk about the major flashpoints occurring in East Africa and the Horn of Africa that is buried in the news cycle. This will be a long read, so grab a snack. In the past decade, these regions have seen an explosion in violence related to a myriad of factors be it water in the age of the climate crisis, access to mining, land rights, and various other disputes to which some call this region a “conflict belt.” Worryingly, many players and factions in this neighborhood have competing and overlapping interests spurred on by greater outside powers on the global stage. This complex web of alliances and rivalries reminds me of Europe before World War I with wide differences. While a major war in this region isn’t inevitable, there are many factors that make a greater conflict likely to occur. **Somalia** **and Somaliland** 🇸🇴 For over forty years, Somalia has become a failed state due to increased meddling by outside powers and poor governance from past leaders such as General Siad Barre. It’s a tragic shame as years ago Somalia was a developing country, but it’s a victim of geography as it’s situated at the mouth of the Red Sea, a key shipping lane. Internally, it occasionally struggles to put down insurgencies by Islamist groups such as Al-Shabaab and other militant groups. Because Somalia can hardly keep control of its own territory, it makes it vulnerable to be carved up piecemeal by outside powers. In the past couple of years, the breakaway region of Somaliland has received recognition from countries such as Ethiopia, who want access to the sea (more on that in a bit), and Israel, who want a key launching pad for attacks on Ansar Allah in Yemen. Somalia is furious at both of these developments, but there isn’t much they can do about it as of now, given that they had no choice but to allow for Türkiye’s mediation efforts with Ethiopia. Somalia has simultaneously increased military and economic ties with Türkiye and Egypt, the latter of whom is Ethiopia’s chief regional rival (more on THAT in a bit also). **Ethiopia VS. Eritrea** 🇪🇹🇪🇷 For a long time, the land of what is now Eritrea was part of Ethiopia, but Eritreans rebelled against Addis Ababa’s rule and engaged in an armed rebellion in September 1961 which ended in May 1991 with Eritrean independence. Both nations had periodic conflicts along their shared borders but it was none other than Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who helped negotiate peace with Eritrea for which he won a Nobel Peace Prize (hilariously ironic considering the path he’s gone down). The existential problem for Ethiopia is that it is now the most populous landlocked country in the world and the second largest country by population in Africa behind Nigeria. A growing population with increasing energy needs and costs is an unsustainable status quo for Ethiopia yet these ambitions for Ethiopia, and to an extent Abiy Ahmed himself, have put it at odds with other regional powers. After Abiy won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Tigray region of Northern Ethiopia launched an armed insurgency against the Ethiopian state led by the TPLF. Depending on who you ask, Tigrayans rebelled either because of lack of representation in government or ethnic disputes. In response, Ethiopia, with an alliance of Eritrea and local groups like the Oromos and the Amhara’s Fano group, was able to beat back the TPLF’s advances and contained it until a peace deal was signed in 2022 at an enormous humanitarian cost of an estimated 600,000 lives. The Tigray War quietly slipped under the radar as Ethiopia controlled what information got out. Both sides committed horrific war crimes and what little peace remains hasn’t soothed the ethnic and tribal divisions. Ethiopia’s once allies against the TPLF are now switching sides as Abiy’s power moves have placed them at odds. The Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups have their own grievances against Addis Ababa and Eritrea has grown uneasy at Abiy’s plan to gain access to the sea at the expense of Eritrean land. In response, Eritrea has grown close to none other than Egypt for a strong military ally. It’s already too messy and I haven’t even talked about the apocalyptic horror show unfolding next door. **Sudan’s Civil War and the South Sudanese Descent** 🇸🇩🇸🇸 I don’t even know where to begin with this one. Sudan has unfortunately been too familiar with conflict ever since independence from British/Egyptian colonial rule in the late fifties. Like many post-colonial countries, there has been a lot of internal strife due to land and ethnic disputes stemming from artificially-drawn borders. In what is now Sudan, you have majority Muslim Arabs and Arab-speaking ethnic groups. In South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011, you have majority black populations who are Christian or practice local indigenous faiths and traditions. When both Sudan and South Sudan were one country, there were decades of war between the ruling Islamic military regime in Khartoum against southern rebels such as the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). The south was also home to Sudan’s biggest oil wells from where the profits were never given back to the South Sudanese. South Sudan gained independence after decades of struggle (and possibly George Clooney, I shit you not), but decades of intentional underdevelopment by Khartoum set South Sudan back causing civil war, and eventually a compounding refugee crisis from the north. Sudan’s ongoing civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is the current greatest humanitarian catastrophe in the world today and most don’t even know about it. Over ten million people have fled the country, millions of people have lost access to food, water, and medicine, and an untold number of people, possibly in the tens or hundreds of thousands have been killed. A gruesome number of women and children have suffered untold sexual violence, mostly at the hands of the RSF. Where most conflicts in Sudan’s modern history have been in the peripheries of the south and the western Darfur region, the ongoing civil war came home to the capital Khartoum and the larger cities such as Omdurman. The RSF, led by the psychopathic warlord Mohamad Hamdan Dagolo (Hemedti), are a criminal enterprise and a private army of sadistic, evil fucking bastards. They grew out of the Janjaweed (Devils on horseback) militia, created by former dictator Omar al-Bashir to genocide the Darfur peoples who engaged in rebellion against the state in 2003. Soon the Janjaweed rebranded and served powers like the United Arab Emirates who want Sudanese gold and cannon fodder for their wars such as in Yemen. The RSF now has a near-monopoly on Sudan’s gold mines thanks to strong UAE backing. The RSF in conjunction with the Sudanese military, overthrew Omar al-Bashir after a popular uprising in 2019, but turned on each other after failures to implement a power-sharing agreement. The RSF are committing the same atrocities today through ISIS-style genocidal violence against non-Arabs throughout Sudan. For example, when the RSF took the city of Al-Fasher, they killed so many people that you could see pools of blood from space. During the ongoing civil war, the RSF with UAE backing, have set up a complex logistical network in East Africa from Libya, Chad, down and across the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia has allegedly given access to RSF forces for training and shelter to undermine key SAF ally Egypt. The RSF reportedly formed an alliance with southern rebel group SPLM-North and has ties to South Sudan, traditional enemies of Khartoum. South Sudan meanwhile has its own power struggle between President Salva Kiir (former SPLM commander) and former vice president Riek Machar, each of whom lead their own armed factions. Unsurprisingly, conflict from the north has potential to overlap into the south and oil fields determine the course of a potential war. Despite being cordial, Salva Kiir allegedly has ties to anti-Khartoum forces in the north and allows RSF supply routes on South Sudanese soil; South Sudanese citizens have even fought in the RSF as mercenaries. In its corner, the SAF has close ties with Egypt as much of their officers were trained in Egyptian military academies. Allegedly, the SAF have backers in both Türkiye and Iran, who have provided weapons like munitions and drones. The Sudanese civil war is not just another African conflict, but a proxy war driven primarily by the UAE’s lust for gold they can sell in their tacky shopping centers in Dubai. As of now, neither side can gain an advantage in the war and a realistic possibility is that Sudan will fragment into separate states again unless outside powers gain greater momentum in the war. **The Egypt Equation** 🇪🇬 Out of all the outside players, it’s Egypt that has much skin in the game of power competitions occurring within these regions and it’s all because of the Nile River. Their regional adversary, Ethiopia, built what is called the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) which has the output to provide electricity for millions of its people. The problem is that they built it in parts of the Nile, which travels upwards to Egypt and can possibly reduce water flow which is necessary for Egypt’s livelihood and survival, unacceptable for them especially now during Climate Change. This has been a thorn in Egypt’s side and negotiations have broken down between both countries. No war is on the horizon, but Ethiopia has dug its heels in while Egypt, wielding the largest military in the Arab world, has made moves to ally itself with Eritrea and Somalia. Due to economic constraints, Egypt cannot embroil itself in a protracted war, so its influence over regional events have remained in the shadows. I’ve heard whispers that Ethiopia accused Egypt of backing the TPLF during the Tigray War, but no hard evidence of this exists. In Sudan, Egypt provides diplomatic (and possibly material) support to the SAF in their war against Ethiopian allies in the RSF. Ethiopia’s internal instability benefits Egypt so Ethiopia must play its own hand accordingly. To summarize, everything’s fucked, but not to the point where the entire region will ignite all at once. Egypt’s economy is in poor shape and cannot afford a protracted war that will damage its society further especially with Ansar Allah’s Red Sea blockade and the Iran War. Ethiopia’s internal ethnic divisions continue to stall Abiy Ahmed’s dreams to gain permanent access to the Red Sea. Until Ethiopia can stabilize its own internal divisions, there’s no way a single Ethiopian soldier will set foot in Eritrea. Yet, neither Ethiopia nor Egypt can afford the current status quo. Ethiopia cannot afford to be landlocked and Egypt cannot afford reduced water into the Nile because of Ethiopia’s dam projects during the age of the Climate Crisis. Sudan and its people will tragically continue to suffer through savage civil war no thanks to the UAE and its neocolonial ambitions to secure gold. If you’ve made it this far, I salute you fellow armchair generals for your patience as you’ve read through my schizophrenic ramblings. 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On the Renewed Evidence of the Use of Chemical Weapons in Sudan Recent international reports have revealed evidence and information of the utmost gravity, reinforcing allegations that the Sudanese Armed Forces used chemical weapons during the ongoing war in the country. The seriousness of these findings leaves no room for them to be ignored or downplayed. Targeting civilians with toxic substances and prohibited weapons constitutes a direct threat to life, a grave violation of international law, and a serious assault on human dignity and the principles governing the protection of civilians. Such acts may amount to war crimes requiring an independent investigation and accountability without exception. These allegations cannot be considered in isolation from Darfur’s painful history, nor separated from the record of aerial attacks and bombardments that targeted villages and civilian areas over many years. In 2016, Amnesty International presented evidence strongly indicating the repeated use of chemical weapons against civilians in the Jebel Marra region. The organization estimated that at least thirty attacks had taken place, drawing on survivors’ testimonies, photographs, video footage, satellite imagery, and analyses conducted by independent experts. At the time, it called for an urgent and independent international investigation. However, the Sudanese government at that time prevented international bodies from accessing the affected sites in Jebel Marra, obstructing an independent field investigation and the collection and verification of evidence. Denying access was insufficient to disprove the reported incidents or dispel the suspicions surrounding them. Instead, it left the matter unresolved and reinforced the need to reopen the investigation and grant international investigators full, safe, and unrestricted access to those locations. In 2025, the United States officially determined that the Sudanese Armed Forces had used chemical weapons during 2024 and subsequently imposed measures and restrictions under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act. This official determination, together with the new evidence and information disclosed by international reports in recent days, places the international community under a legal and moral obligation to conduct an independent and comprehensive investigation without delay-to establish the truth, protect civilians, prevent any recurrence of the use of such weapons, and hold all those responsible to account. Guided by the moral and historical responsibility of the Sultanate of Darfur towards all the people of Sudan, I affirm that protecting citizens and defending their rights to life, security, and dignity is a duty that permits no discrimination on the grounds of affiliation, region, or political position. I condemn in the strongest possible terms any use of such weapons against civilians. Exposing civilians to toxic substances or prohibited weapons constitutes a direct assault on human beings and their inherent right to life. It is a crime that transcends the bounds of political and military conflict and demands serious international action to uncover the truth, protect civilians, deliver justice to the victims, and hold those responsible to account. Accordingly, I call upon the United Nations, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and the relevant international mechanisms to conduct an independent and transparent international investigation into all allegations concerning the use of these weapons during the current war. I further call for the investigation into the previous incidents in Darfur-particularly in Jebel Marra-to be reopened, while ensuring that investigators are granted full, safe, and unrestricted access to the suspected sites to collect samples, preserve evidence, and interview survivors, witnesses, and medical personnel. I also call for the entire chain of command and responsibility to be identified, without limiting accountability to those who directly carried out the attacks. Every person who ordered, planned, manufactured, stored, transported, or used these weapons must be brought to a fair trial before the competent judicial authorities. I further call for a comprehensive health and environmental assessment of the affected areas, the provision of specialized medical care to survivors, and safeguards to prevent materials intended for civilian and humanitarian purposes from being diverted into the production of weapons that kill citizens and endanger their lives. The blood of the people of Darfur and all Sudanese is not cheap. The protection of civilians is not a matter to be subjected to political calculations; it is a moral and legal duty that neither silence nor the passage of time can extinguish. Justice will remain an indispensable condition for peace, just as uncovering the truth and delivering justice to victims will remain the foundation of any genuine and sustainable national reconciliation. In fulfilment of this responsibility, we will not remain passive observers. We declare our determination to take the necessary steps to bring this matter before the competent international bodies and initiate coordinated international action calling for the reopening of the file concerning allegations of chemical weapons use in Darfur and its incorporation into investigations into the current incidents. This is essential to preserve a unified path towards the truth and ensure that no victim is omitted from the record of justice. We also renew our call for the enforcement of all arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court against persons wanted in connection with crimes committed in Darfur, and for an end to the era of impunity. We call upon the sons and daughters of Darfur, all Sudanese people, and civil society and human rights groups to unite their peaceful efforts and employ legitimate advocacy and pressure to urge the international community to fulfil its responsibilities, open an independent investigation, protect civilians, deliver justice to victims, and hold accountable every person whose responsibility is established, regardless of position or status. We will remain faithful to our responsibility to defend all the people of Darfur and the right of every Sudanese citizen to life, security, and justice. Justice cannot be fulfilled when applied selectively, and peace cannot be built upon concealed crimes or denied rights. We pray that Almighty God grants mercy to the victims, healing to the injured, and protection to our people throughout Sudan; that He brings this war to an end and restores peace, security, and stability to our country. Sultan Ahmed Ali Dinar Sultan of Darfur 7 September 2026