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Sudan takes UAE to World Court over 'genocide' in Darfur

Thursday, 10 April 2025 1:29 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 10 April 2025 1:29 PM ]

Sudan's acting-Justice Minister Muawia Osman (L) is sitting next to Sudanese Ambassador to the Netherlands Omaima Alsharief as they wait for the start of a hearing before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, on April 10, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

Khartoum has taken legal action against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) also known as the World Court for creating the "driving force" behind the ongoing "genocide" in Sudan.

Since 2023, a power struggle between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has plunged the country into civil war. Khartourm now accuses the UAE of supporting the RSF in its genocide of the non-Arab Masalit people in Sudan's Darfur region.

Opening the case before the ICJ in The Hague, Sudan’s acting justice minister told the court on Thursday that the UAE is the “driving force” behind the "genocide" in Darfur via its alleged support for rebels fighting the Sudanese army.

Muawia Osman told the court that the “ongoing genocide would not be possible without the complicity of the UAE, including the shipment of arms to the RSF”.

“The direct logistical and other support that the UAE has provided and continues to provide to the RSF has been and continues to be the primary driving force behind the genocide now taking place, including killing, rape, forced displacement and looting,” said Osman.

Khartoum demands that the UAE halt its support to the RSF and make “full reparations”, including compensation to the victims of the war.

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The UAE, for its part, denies supporting the RSF. "There was no credible evidence presented to support (Sudan's) claims," Reem Ketait, a top official at the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a statement.

Earlier, Ketait described Sudan’s case as a “blatant misuse of a respected international institution” and “entirely without legal or factual merit."

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