Sudan's shadow war: Drone strikes reveal escalating tensions between UAE and Turkey

Air strikes in Nyala and then Port Sudan show Ankara and Abu Dhabi on opposing sides of Sudan's war.

Recent drone strikes in Sudan have revealed an escalating rivalry between the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, which are backing opposing sides in a war that has been raging since April 2023. Officials in Sudan’s army-backed government have been watching the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) flying military cargo planes in and out of Nyala airport in South Darfur for months. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) targeted the airport on multiple occasions, suspecting that the UAE, through its network of air bases in the region, including one in Uganda and one in Somalia’s autonomous Puntland, was using it to supply the RSF with sophisticated weapons, armed drones and ammunition. Those suspicions had been confirmed by external monitors, including Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab, which said that Chinese-made drones “consistent with FH-95s” bought by the UAE had been flown into Nyala. Last week, Amnesty International found that the UAE was sending Chinese-made weaponry, including GB50A guided bombs and 155mm AH-4 howitzers, into Darfur despite an ongoing UN arms embargo.

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