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House Panel Highlights UAE, Regional States and Gold Trade as Fuel for Sudan’s War
Summary
Witnesses told the House subcommittee that outside actors — notably the United Arab Emirates, regional states, and foreign arms flows — have transformed Sudan’s war into a regionalized conflict and that gold exports are financing armed groups.
Cameron Hudson, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa that the Sudan conflict “has fully transformed into a battle for influence among a host of local and regional actors” and pointed to drone strikes, long-range aerial operations, and foreign-supplied weapons.
Multiple witnesses singled out the United Arab Emirates as a major external actor that has supplied weapons and other support to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Testimony and questioning in the hearing cited reporting and flight-tracker evidence of arms and material transits through regional hubs…
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