Sudan’s ambassador to the EU Abdelbagi Kabeir has called on the EU to stop sending weapons to the United Arab Emirates, one of the union’s largest customers for arms exports, amid credible reports that the Gulf country is diverting weapons to arm the paramilitary group RSF in its deadly war in Sudan.
[Per a France24 investigation](https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20250417-investigation-european-weapons-sudan-part-1-mortar-shells-bulgaria) published in April 2025, ammunition manufactured in Bulgaria was found in the RSF’s arsenal seized by militants affiliated to the Sudanese Armed Forces in November 2024, among other materiel – and passports belonging to Colombian mercenaries – sent by the UAE to the rebel groups fighting the internationally-recognized government of Sudan. Other investigations by the UN and media outlets also found British and French-made materiel was used by the RSF, after being re-exported without authorization by the UAE, as confirmed by Bulgarian and British government sources, as well as the French defense company Lacroix.
The UAE has categorically denied re-exporting weapons to the war-torn East African country – which would violate the 30-year arms embargo enforced by the EU against Sudan -, as it has repeatedly denied providing support to the RSF throughout the war that erupted in April 2023 and has killed tens of thousands of civilians, and plunged Sudan into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with 25 million people affected by acute malnutrition, including 12 million forcibly displaced.
The RSF was accused of carrying out “acts of genocide” by the Biden administration in January 2025 following reports of widespread and systematic atrocities against civilian populations in Darfur, Khartoum and Kordofan, specifically targeting the non-Arab populations like the Masalit in the name of racial supremacy. The RSF conquered the city of El-Fasher, which was the SAF’s last position in Darfur, on October 26, 2025, and has since been carrying out one of the worst massacres of the 21st century, with a low estimate of 2,500 killed over a few days, and possibly tens of thousands in racially targeted mass killings.
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Sudan’s ambassador to the EU Abdelbagi Kabeir has called on the EU to stop sending weapons to the United Arab Emirates, one of the union’s largest customers for arms exports, amid credible reports that the Gulf country is diverting weapons to arm the paramilitary group RSF in its deadly war in Sudan.
[Per a France24 investigation](https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20250417-investigation-european-weapons-sudan-part-1-mortar-shells-bulgaria) published in April 2025, ammunition manufactured in Bulgaria was found in the RSF’s arsenal seized by militants affiliated to the Sudanese Armed Forces in November 2024, among other materiel – and passports belonging to Colombian mercenaries – sent by the UAE to the rebel groups fighting the internationally-recognized government of Sudan. Other investigations by the UN and media outlets also found British and French-made materiel was used by the RSF, after being re-exported without authorization by the UAE, as confirmed by Bulgarian and British government sources, as well as the French defense company Lacroix.
The UAE has categorically denied re-exporting weapons to the war-torn East African country – which would violate the 30-year arms embargo enforced by the EU against Sudan -, as it has repeatedly denied providing support to the RSF throughout the war that erupted in April 2023 and has killed tens of thousands of civilians, and plunged Sudan into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with 25 million people affected by acute malnutrition, including 12 million forcibly displaced.
The RSF was accused of carrying out “acts of genocide” by the Biden administration in January 2025 following reports of widespread and systematic atrocities against civilian populations in Darfur, Khartoum and Kordofan, specifically targeting the non-Arab populations like the Masalit in the name of racial supremacy. The RSF conquered the city of El-Fasher, which was the SAF’s last position in Darfur, on October 26, 2025, and has since been carrying out one of the worst massacres of the 21st century, with a low estimate of 2,500 killed over a few days, and possibly tens of thousands in racially targeted mass killings.