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[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Never forget this photograph

[Eric Reeves @sudanreeves]

The #UN confirms what has long been evident to all who would simply look at the staggering amount of evidence that the #RSF has committed the most egregious human crime. Equally evident is the necessity of our seeing that the #UAE is deeply complicit in the crime of #genocide—and yet the international community refuses to call out the #Emiratis. This is so despite Article III, clause (e) of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: "(e) Complicity in genocide."

“UN probe says mass killings, rapes, abductions, starvation by Sudan force amount to #genocide”
Reuters (Geneva), July 8, 2026
https://t.co/gegD1awU77
• UN probe finds mass killings, rape and deliberate starvation in al-#Fashir amounted to genocide
• Report said the RSF and allies committed the war crime of starvation by besieging al-Fashir
• Warning of similar atrocities ​in al-#Obeid

#Sudan's #RSF forces carried out mass killings, abductions ‌of women and girls, mass gang rapes and forced starvation in a city they besieged and captured last year, as part of an intentional policy amounting to #genocide, a U.N. probe said on Wednesday [July 8, 2026]. The Rapid Support Forces,​ which are battling the Sudanese army in a civil war, committed the crimes in al-Fashir ​in North #Darfur, which they captured last year after a long siege, the U.N. ⁠Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan found.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

US soldiers force Vietnamese woman to become "human minesweepers", walking through minefields, Vietnam War (1966).

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

This is the year 2026. One might have hoped that, after thousands of years of war, humanity could have come up with a better way to resolve conflicts than killing and mass destruction. Unfortunately, that is not the case.  There is now more war and bloodshed raging across the world than at almost any point in decades.

In February 2022, Vladimir Putin, without provocation, invaded Ukraine. The result: hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians killed, millions displaced and a war that grinds on with no end in sight.

In October 2023, Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 innocent people and taking 251 hostages. In response, Netanyahu and the Israeli military did not simply wage war against Hamas — they waged war against the entire population of Gaza. At least 73,000 Palestinians have been killed, the real toll almost certainly far higher, most of them women, children and the elderly. Virtually the entire physical infrastructure of Gaza has been destroyed. I agree with the major human rights organizations around the world who call this a genocide.

Four months ago, in collusion with Netanyahu, Trump took a page from Putin's playbook: he started a war with Iran without provocation. The result of this war (and the ensuing Israeli war against Lebanon): 13 U.S. service members dead, thousands of Iranian and Lebanese civilians killed and more than $100 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars spent.

And in the midst of all of this — Ukraine, Gaza, Iran — there is another horrific war happening now that is getting relatively little attention: the civil war and genocide in Sudan.

Sudan's two rival military factions, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), the country's national army, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group, have been at war since 2023. The RSF descends from the Janjaweed militias that carried out Sudan's first genocide in Darfur two decades ago, killing as many as 400,000 non-Arab civilians. Today, the RSF is trying to finish what it started. The State Department has formally determined that the RSF is committing genocide, again, murdering men and boys and systematically raping women and girls because of their ethnicity. Last October, the RSF laid siege to the city of El-Fasher; in just the first three days after it fell, an estimated 6,000 people were killed. Right now, the same horror is unfolding in the city of El-Obeid, where nearly half a million people are trapped.

Let’s be clear. Trump’s good friend and staunch U.S. ally, the United Arab Emirates dictatorship, run by one of the wealthiest families in the world — has financed and enabled this genocide for years. And why is this happening? Billions of dollars of looted gold from Sudan is flowing straight into the pockets of Emirati oligarchs – making a multibillionaire family even richer. This has been documented by the United Nations, independent journalists, and international human rights organizations.

Here is the scale of what this war has caused: at least 59,000 people confirmed killed since 2023, with credible estimates running as high as 150,000. Fourteen million people driven from their homes. Thirty million people, two–thirds of Sudan's population, in need of emergency humanitarian assistance just to survive.

U.S. foreign policy must be based on a respect for democracy and human rights. We cannot be complicit in the face of genocide, no matter where it is happening. Congress must demand that the UAE cease its military support for the RSF and work with the international community and the Sudanese people to bring an end to this horrific conflict and provide the humanitarian aid that is desperately needed there.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇺🇸🇸🇩 Sen. Bernie Sanders is drawing renewed attention to the war in Sudan, calling on Congress to pressure the United Arab Emirates to end its military support for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Sanders said the conflict has been overshadowed by the wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and Lebanon despite becoming one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

He accused “Trump’s good friend and staunch U.S. ally, the United Arab Emirates” of having “financed and enabled this genocide for years,” adding that “billions of dollars of looted gold from Sudan” are flowing into the hands of Emirati oligarchs.

Sanders said at least 59,000 people have been confirmed killed, with credible estimates as high as 150,000, 14 million displaced, and 30 million people, about two-thirds of Sudan’s population, now in need of emergency humanitarian assistance. He warned of the worsening situation in El Obeid and called for an end to foreign support for the RSF.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

An urgent debate at the UN Human Rights Council to avert atrocities in Sudan’s El Obeid exposed the reluctance of Western governments to publicly name the United Arab Emirates for arming the genocidal paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Money buys impunity. https://t.co/oKyzBACwN3

[هيومن رايتس ووتش @hrw_ar]

"البرلمان الأوروبي" يعتمد قرارا بشأن هجمات "قوات الدعم السريع" على الأبيّض في السودان.

وللمرة الأولى، تضمّن القرار إدانة صريحة للإمارات لدعمها قوات الدعم السريع.

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

UAE-BACKED RSF MILITIA COMMIT ALMOST 90% OF R*PES IN SUDAN

A report from the UN Human Rights Office has confirmed that the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allied militias are responsible for nearly 90% of all reported cases of r*pe and sexual abuse since the war in Sudan began in April 2023.

While the report documents at least 838 confirmed cases primarily involving women and girls, the UN notes that this is likely a drastic undercount due to the extreme danger and stigma preventing victims from coming forward.

The investigation exposes how the RSF uses r*pe as a weapon of war.

Nonetheless, video evidence also reveals how RSF fighters and their supporters openly boast about and encourage these atrocities.

For example, in 2023, a video went viral whereby an RSF field commander known as Yajuj and Majuj declared that r*pe is the “right” of the RSF.

Two years later, a video circulated social media showing a female RSF field commander by the name of Shiraz calling upon her male counterparts to “go to the Northern State just for their girls” so as to “cleanse their lineage”.

Also alarming is the role of international propagandists in normalising these crimes.

For example, UK-based RSF propagandist Alrabea Abdelmoneim once declared that he hopes that the RSF perpetrate r*pes in northern Sudanese cities so that they can “learn the true meaning of r*pe”.

Despite this, Abdelmoneim has not been held accountable by UK authorities.

Moreover, western states remain unwilling to call out the UAE despite credible reports proving their support for the RSF.

[Walaa Elsadig @walaaelsadig]

International court tells BBC of breakthrough in Sudan war crimes probe:

“The International Criminal Court (ICC) has "concrete evidence" linking leaders of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to recent war crimes in the Sudanese region of Darfur, the ICC's deputy chief prosecutor says.”

Better come late than never.

https://t.co/bnbf1lRLeh

[Cameron Hudson @_hudsonc]

UN now declaring that the RSF committed genocide last year when it sacked El Fasher, including through "large-scale killings, mass-scale rape deliberate starvation, encirclement, attacks on civilian infrastructure, restrictions on ​humanitarian access, and widespread abuses against civilians" as part of an intended policy of genocide."

Sadly, I am less shocked by the behavior of the RSF as I am the craven indifference of the international community that continues to see these belligerents as equals.
https://t.co/QOEgUjB3tl

[Amgad Fareid Eltayeb @Amgad_Fareid]

#KeepEyesOnSudan

The United Kingdom should take a principled stance and follow the @Europarl_EN by beginning the process of designating the RSF militia as a terrorist organization under the Terrorism Act 2000.

Designation is not a symbolic gesture. It would criminalize the material support that sustains the militia. It would legally obstruct the flow of arms and drones into its hands. And it would close British territory to those who move money, weapons, and political cover to the RSF.

The European Parliament has already done what conscience requires: it has named the external interference fuelling this war, named the UAE, and called for sanctions on the enablers and private security companies breaching the UN arms embargo.
English Words about the crisis without actions are not enough.
Britain’s continued silence — and its apparent tolerance of the RSF’s continued arming through the UAE — is deeply shameful. The United Kingdom cannot claim to defend international law while turning a blind eye to atrocities committed against Sudanese civilians.

@SarahChampionMP
@monicabeharding

[Amgad Fareid Eltayeb @Amgad_Fareid]

#KeepEyesOnSudan
Attempts to impose the Libyan partition scenario on Sudan as a fait accompli are doomed to fail from the outset — whether they come through the door or through the window. Sudan is not Libya, and the Rapid Support Forces militia is not a political entity with political demands grounded in a social base. It is a terrorist militia of fascist character, representing no genuine constituency in Sudan, resting on no national project and holding no popular mandate.

The militia sought to exploit the historical grievances bound up with unbalanced development in Sudan’s peripheries. But those attempts broke against two rocks that cannot be circumvented: the first, its own history as one of the most violent and brutal instruments of that very marginalisation; the second, its ongoing record today of crimes, violations, and genocide against those same local communities; killing, displacement, plunder, and the holding of civilians hostage in service of its authoritarian ambitions and of the Emirati project that sponsors it and supplies it with the means of survival.

For this reason, the efforts of certain circles within the international community to confer a de facto legitimacy upon this militia’s control over parts of Sudan, and to impose that as the only realistic path to ending the war, constitute a prescription for perpetuating the conflict and prolonging it, not for bringing it to an end. Legitimising armed control of territory does not make peace. It establishes a divided state, and it rewards force and violence as the means of acquiring political legitimacy. This is what Sudanese will not accept, what international law does not permit, and what diplomatic custom does not allow to be imposed through fait accompli arrangements or through initiatives that grant the militia the space to subjugate people by force.

The conclusion is this: no truce can command the acceptance of the Sudanese unless it contains, in clear and uninterpretable terms, the withdrawal of the Rapid Support Forces militia from the civilian spaces and civilian facilities it occupies by force, and the release of the civilians it has turned into hostages of its military presence, its political ambitions, and the expansionist project of the Al Nahyan family and the Abu Dhabi sheikhdom on the African continent. As for a ceasefire that entrenches armed occupation — it is nothing but complicity in the militia’s criminality.

The unity of Sudan is not a negotiable item, and it cannot be the price of a political settlement that lacks justice, legitimacy, and durability.

[Cameron Hudson @_hudsonc]

ICC tells of breakthrough in war crimes investigation of RSF crimes in Darfur on the same day the UN declares genocide in El Fasher. Once again, the ICC is years, if not decades, behind the curve in Sudan. https://t.co/9YImcESLwm

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

JUST SO I UNDERSTAND THIS, BLOCKING THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS UNFAIR, BUT BLOCKING OIL SHIPMENTS TO CUBA IN ORDER TO COLLAPSE THEIR WHOLE COUNTRY, IS FAIR 🤔 DID I GET THAT RIGHT 🙄

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

The war in Sudan "which is often categorized in international media as a civil war, is really a proxy war on both sides of the RSF. Their main backer is the United Arab Emirates,” says @JCSteers, whose new investigation looks into a secret network of RSF training camps.

[Maaz! okoronkwo @Elijokoro]

@Bobblebeewbgp @CFCNRC @Thechat101 Why are you posting ur mother's family picture?

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

In 1911 a mob dragged Laura Nelson and her 14 year old son from Jail. Raped her. Hanged them both from a bridge. Then sold photographs of their bodies as postcards. Her crime was protecting her son and being black

[Cameron Hudson @_hudsonc]

The Guardian view on atrocities in Sudan: when ‘never again’ becomes again, and again. Another editorial calling out the UAE's instrumental role in enabling Sudan's atrocities. https://t.co/UuXca0a1pQ

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Western Traders Are Crashing Africa’s Cocoa Market

West Africa grows the cocoa that feeds the global chocolate industry, but when the market crashes, it is African farmers who are left exposed.

African countries cannot continue to produce raw materials while Western traders, processors and chocolate brands control the real value, the pricing and the profit.

The cocoa crisis is another reminder that Africa needs stronger regional control, more local processing, African-owned value chains and better protection for the farmers whose labour keeps this industry alive.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

How Jeffrey Epstein Shaped Internal Affairs In DRC, Côte d'Ivoire & Nigeria

The first, 3.5-million-page batch of the infamous Epstein files – released by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) on January 30th, 2026 – has revealed many disturbing truths about the Western ruling elite, and when most Africans who have followed this news think about the name ‘Jeffrey Epstein’, the s*x-related scandals are usually the only things that come to mind.

But Epstein was more than just a s*xual deviant and human tr*fficker.

In this report, The Spearhead sheds light on a series of analyses on the Epstein files by US-based nonprofit investigative news outlet, @DropSiteNews, which reveal how intimately involved Jeffrey Epstein was with Africa’s internal affairs.