I strongly believe the west should take a firmer stance on the UAE’s support of the RSF. The RSF’s conduct in the Sudanese civil war has been despicable, and steps need to be taken to prevent military aid reaching them. I am really disappointed that Biden has not taken a firm stance at this at all, and instead decided to increase cooperation with the UAE. Many lives are at stake in Sudan, and the RSF continues to slaughter and rape civilians.
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>United Arab Emirates President Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visited the White House Monday, a first for an Emirati leader. The high-level attention underscored deepening U.S. ties with a key Gulf Arab ally amid the ongoing wars in Gaza and across the Israeli-Lebanese border. The Biden administration announced a range of new areas for cooperation with the UAE, including artificial intelligence, space exploration, clean energy technology and defense. President Joe Biden designated the UAE a “major defense partner.” India is the only other nation to have received that label, which allows for closer military cooperation including joint training and exercises.
>On a different subject, though — Sudan’s civil war, and the UAE’s role in fueling it — the meeting produced a more mixed message. A joint communique saved fewer than 250 of its nearly 4,000 words for the topic. That’s not many for a conflict that has seen up to 20,000 people, mostly civilians, killed and parts of the capital city, Khartoum, reduced to rubble. Some 10 million people have fled their homes, another 26 million people face a risk of hunger, and there are warnings of famine or potential genocide in the Darfur region.
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I strongly believe the west should take a firmer stance on the UAE’s support of the RSF. The RSF’s conduct in the Sudanese civil war has been despicable, and steps need to be taken to prevent military aid reaching them. I am really disappointed that Biden has not taken a firm stance at this at all, and instead decided to increase cooperation with the UAE. Many lives are at stake in Sudan, and the RSF continues to slaughter and rape civilians.
>United Arab Emirates President Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visited the White House Monday, a first for an Emirati leader. The high-level attention underscored deepening U.S. ties with a key Gulf Arab ally amid the ongoing wars in Gaza and across the Israeli-Lebanese border. The Biden administration announced a range of new areas for cooperation with the UAE, including artificial intelligence, space exploration, clean energy technology and defense. President Joe Biden designated the UAE a “major defense partner.” India is the only other nation to have received that label, which allows for closer military cooperation including joint training and exercises.
>On a different subject, though — Sudan’s civil war, and the UAE’s role in fueling it — the meeting produced a more mixed message. A joint communique saved fewer than 250 of its nearly 4,000 words for the topic. That’s not many for a conflict that has seen up to 20,000 people, mostly civilians, killed and parts of the capital city, Khartoum, reduced to rubble. Some 10 million people have fled their homes, another 26 million people face a risk of hunger, and there are warnings of famine or potential genocide in the Darfur region.