Saturday, May 10, 2025 - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has rejected an Amnesty International report alleging that it supplied Chinese-made weapons to Sudanese paramilitary forces involved in the ongoing conflict with the country’s regular army. In a statement posted on the UAE Foreign Ministry's X account, Salem Aljaberi, the UAE’s assistant minister for security and military affairs, strongly denied the accusations, calling them “baseless” and unsupported by evidence.
“The UAE strongly rejects the suggestion that it is supplying weaponry to
any party involved in the ongoing conflict in Sudan,” Aljaberi said. He added
that the claims made in Amnesty’s report were “misleading” and lacked
substantiated evidence.
On Thursday, May 8, Amnesty International released a report based on its
analysis of footage depicting attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
(RSF) in Sudan’s capital Khartoum and Darfur. The report claimed that it had
identified “Chinese GB50A guided bombs and 155mm AH-4 howitzers” used by the
RSF, suggesting that the UAE was the sole country that imported these howitzers
from China in 2019. Amnesty relied on data from the Stockholm International
Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) for its findings.
Aljaberi responded by stating that the howitzer in question was
manufactured outside the UAE and had been available on the international market
for nearly a decade. He dismissed the claim that only one country had procured
or transferred the system, describing the Amnesty report as “misleading.”
The Amnesty report came amid ongoing RSF drone attacks on army-controlled
cities in Sudan. The UAE has repeatedly denied allegations of arming the RSF,
despite claims from UN experts, US politicians, and other international
organizations. On Tuesday, Sudan's army-aligned government severed diplomatic
ties with the UAE, accusing it of supplying the RSF with advanced weaponry used
in attacks on Port Sudan. The UAE denied the allegation, maintaining that the
internationally recognized Sudanese administration does not represent the
legitimate government of Sudan.
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