US Urged to End Arms Sales to UAE as It Backs Genocidal Paramilitary in Sudan
The US has provided the UAE with billions of dollars’ worth of weapons, even as it’s funneled weapons into Sudan.
By Sharon Zhang , TruthoutPublishedOctober 30, 2025
Calls are growing for the U.S. to end arms transfers to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after reports of horrific slaughter in Sudan this week by the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
On Sunday, the paramilitary force took control of el-Fasher, which was the Sudan Armed Forces’s (SAF) last major outpost in Darfur. The forces stormed the city, displacing tens of thousands and killing an estimated 2,000 people in door-to-door killings, executions, and a massacre at the Saudi Maternity Hospital.
The slaughter of civilians comes on the backdrop of what is already the world’s largest humanitarian catastrophe amid the country’s bloody civil war, which has displaced 13 million people and killed tens of thousands.
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Despite this, the U.S. has maintained a flow of weapons to the UAE, which is a major supplier for RSF. Last year, the Biden administration advanced a $1.2 billion weapons sale to the UAE, despite evidence that the country was not making good on its pledge to not provide weapons to the RSF. Then, in May, the Trump administration notified Congress of a $1.4 billion sale of weapons and military equipment to the UAE, ahead of a visit to the UAE and Saudi Arabia by President Donald Trump.
U.S. intelligence agencies have reportedly assessed that the UAE increased its supplies of weapons to Sudan this year, including with advanced drones and bombs from China that UAE officials re-exported to RSF.
US Urged to End Arms Sales to UAE as It Backs Genocidal Paramilitary in Sudan | Truthout
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