CAIRO, Nov 28 (Reuters) - A top Sudanese general has said the United Arab Emirates is sending supplies to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), publicly accusing the UAE of involvement in its war with its powerful paramilitary rival for the first time.
Army leaders had previously only hinted at interference from unnamed neighbouring countries in the seven-month-old war, which has displaced more than 6 million people and triggered waves of ethnically driven killings in Darfur.
Atta said the UAE had funnelled unspecified supplies to the RSF through Uganda, the Central African Republic (CAR) and Chad.
Atta serves as a deputy to army leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who recently announced his first trip to the UAE since the outbreak of war to coincide with U.N. climate summit COP28 next week.
While the UAE backed Sudan’s aborted political transition after the 2019 overthrow of Omar al-Bashir, it has remained publicly quiet on the war.
Last year the UAE signed a deal to build a port on Sudan’s Red Sea coast, among investments in agriculture and other fields.
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