HOW THE UAE’S SOMALI BASE FEEDS FUELS GENOCIDE IN SUDAN

In an article published on our wesbite "The Bosaso Airbridge: How the UAE’s Somali Base Feeds the RSF’s War Machine", journalist Mukhtar Osman exposes a hidden network linking the shores of Puntland to the killing fields of Sudan. Drawing on flight records, satellite imagery, and mercenary testimonies, the investigation uncovers how Bosaso, once a quiet Somali port city, has become a vital node in the United Arab Emirates’ covert support for Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The story begins with a cargo plane shot down in Nyala — carrying over forty Colombian fighters — and unravels into a transnational web of private contractors, Emirati officials, and pliant local authorities. What was once a “maritime training base” in Bosaso is now a fully Emirati-controlled air hub, bypassing Somalia’s federal oversight, operating under the perfect legal and political ambiguity of Puntland’s semi-autonomy.

Through first-hand accounts, Osman traces how Colombian mercenaries were recruited under false pretenses, transited through Bosaso, and deployed to Sudan under the so-called “Desert Wolves” program, financed by the UAE. Sudan’s intelligence reports, flight logs, and satellite data all point to the same conclusion — a foreign airbridge fueling one of Africa’s most brutal wars.

Behind the mass displacement, the burned villages, and the starving civilians of Darfur stands a modern form of imperialism: a war outsourced, privatized, and flown in from abroad. Osman’s investigation asks a haunting question — how long will African soil continue to serve as the runway for other nations’ imperial wars?