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[International Development Committee @CommonsIDC]

Our Chair @SarahChampionMP has written to the International Development Minister demanding a response to shocking evidence provided to the Committee concerning mass atrocities in Sudan.

Read more: https://t.co/9ym6kswepc

[Sudanese Echo @SudaneseEcho]

Rapid Support Militia Commander Defects in Blue Nile, Revealing Supply Lines Through Ethiopia and Chad and Renewing Scrutiny of the UAE’s Role in Financing and Arming the War

A field commander from the Rapid Support Militia in Sudan’s Blue Nile region, Daifallah Adam Ahmed, has announced his defection from the militia and his joining of the Sudanese Armed Forces. He becomes the first field commander to defect from the Rapid Support Militia on the Blue Nile front.

The announcement comes amid growing concern over cross-border military movements and supply routes through Chad and Ethiopia. In an interview with Al Arabiya, Daifallah Adam said forces belonging to the Rapid Support Militia had been moved through Chad and Ethiopia into the Blue Nile region. He also said the militia receives military, food and medical assistance from both countries.

Speaking about the militia’s external supply lines, Daifallah said support from Chad was clear and came by air. He then addressed Ethiopia directly, saying that Ethiopia supplies the militia with vehicles, weapons and ammunition, in addition to food and drink supplies.

In the interview, he said the vehicles, weapons, ammunition and food supplies all come from Ethiopia. He also said the hospital used by the militia’s fighters is located in Ethiopia. His testimony suggests that the Ethiopian role includes military, logistical and medical support that helps sustain the militia’s operations and gives it the ability to move and fight on this sensitive front.

Daifallah also apologized for his participation in the ranks of the Rapid Support Militia and for the violations committed during the war. He called on the militia’s commanders and soldiers to defect and join the Sudanese Armed Forces.

The defection follows a series of recent breakaways from the Rapid Support Militia over the past weeks, including prominent field figures such as Al-Nour Al-Qubba and Ali Rizqallah, known as Al-Savana. Observers see these defections as a sign of eroding trust inside the militia’s structure, widening disputes among its field commanders, and growing difficulty in maintaining internal cohesion under mounting military and political pressure. At the same time, these defections raise a sensitive question of accountability, since leaving the militia should not become a path to escaping responsibility for violations committed against civilians.

Daifallah’s testimony also follows earlier statements by the official spokesperson of the Sudanese Armed Forces, who said the army had documented evidence of Ethiopian territory being used to support military operations inside Sudan. According to those statements, drones were launched from Bahir Dar airport in Ethiopia toward targets inside Sudan. The Sudanese Armed Forces also referred to a drone that entered Sudanese airspace from the direction of Ethiopia and carried out missions inside the country before it was dealt with. Afterwards, reports of multiple drones appearing across several fronts added to accusations that Ethiopian territory had become an aerial and logistical support platform for the Rapid Support Militia.

These developments are reinforced by international reporting. Reuters has reported on the existence of a camp inside Ethiopia used to train fighters for the Rapid Support Militia near the Sudanese border, with references to a UAE role in financing, training and logistical support. Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab has also reported military activity at the Ethiopian base of Asosa, including indicators that civilian vehicles were being modified and prepared for military use by the militia.

The Chad route has also been present since the early stages of the war as one of the militia’s most important supply lines. Multiple reports have referred to UAE cargo flights to Amdjarass in eastern Chad, close to the Sudanese border, amid accusations that this route has been used to move weapons and supplies into Sudan for the Rapid Support Militia.

Daifallah Adam’s testimony, together with the Sudanese Armed Forces’ statements and reports by Reuters and Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab, points to an organized regional network supporting the Rapid Support Militia. There is a western route through Chad, an eastern route through Ethiopia, training camps, vehicles, weapons, ammunition, and medical, food and logistical support. At the center of this network stands the UAE’s role as the key driver financing, arming and opening supply lines that allow the militia to continue its war against the Sudanese state and society.

The danger of these testimonies and reports is that they draw a picture of an extended support system serving a militia accused of widespread violations against civilians, including attacks on cities, villages, infrastructure and civilian facilities. Despite the growing body of evidence, the international community continues to treat the UAE’s role with visible silence and political courtesy, instead of confronting the party enabling the continuation of the war.

Daifallah Adam’s defection from the Blue Nile front adds new field testimony to the file of foreign support for the Rapid Support Militia. It exposes fractures inside the militia and highlights a larger reality: the continuation of this war is tied to an external support network in which the UAE sits at the center, through financing, weapons and supply routes running through Chad, Ethiopia and other channels.

With every new report and every new field testimony, international silence becomes part of the machinery prolonging the tragedy. Ignoring the UAE’s role does not protect civilians or advance peace. It gives the militia more time, more weapons and more political cover. Sudanese civilians alone are paying the price of this silence, in lives, cities, homes and futures.

#Sudan
#RSFisTerroristOrganization
#UAEKillsSudanesePeople
#UAESponsorsTerrorism

[InfoMigrants Français @InfoMigrants_fr]

Entre 800 et 1 000 migrants - dont une grande partie vient d'arriver à Paris - affrontent actuellement les températures caniculaires de la capitale, sous le métro aérien de Stalingrad.

[UNFPA @UNFPA]

Even when fleeing conflict, women and girls in #SouthSudan are targeted with sexual violence.

See why many live in fear day and night, and why urgent action is needed around the world to #EndRapeInWar: https://t.co/8tzdYjKsay

#ENDviolence

[InfoMigrants Français @InfoMigrants_fr]

🇱🇾 Depuis plusieurs jours, les Subsahariens en #Libye se disent victimes d’une véritable "chasse aux migrants" dans le pays. Violences de rue, désinformation sur les réseaux sociaux… Des manifestations anti-migrants ont aussi éclaté dans plusieurs villes de l’ouest libyen.

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

The UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has been accused of perpetrating at least 2,200 cases of r*pe since it began its war on Sudan in April 2023.

The allegations came from Sudan’s Attorney General, Entisar Ahmed Abdel Aal, who presented findings from Sudan's National Committee for Investigating Crimes and Violations of National and International Humanitarian Law to the UN Human Rights Council.

With the report also claiming that there have been nearly 31,000 k*llings since the war began, the RSF was identified as the primary perpetrator of these atrocities, characterising their actions as systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity, and g*nocide.

Central to the investigation is the role of foreign intervention: the Sudanese government has explicitly called on the international community to cut off external support for the RSF, specifically naming the UAE as a critical sponsor providing military equipment and drones.

This report underscores the catastrophic human cost of a conflict fueled by foreign proxies who utilise brutal sexual violence and displacement as deliberate tools of control.

By documenting the systemic nature of these attacks, the Sudanese government is attempting to force accountability upon both the militia and its international benefactors, whose continued arms supplies, facilitated through regional supply routes, remain the lifeblood of a campaign that has left millions in ruin.

[La1ère.fr @la1ere]

Restitution des dépouilles Kalin'a : les Guyanais fixés ce lundi sur le retour de leurs ancêtres

➡️Ces Guyanais avaient été exposées dans les "zoos humains" à Paris en 1892.

📲💻https://t.co/hStuafFSdy

[AJ+ @ajplus]

An investigation into the NGO, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) found that its local and foreign staff sexually exploited Sudanese refugees in Chad.

#MSF #DoctorsWithoutBorders #Chad #Sudan #Sudanese #Displacement

[Ammar Mahmoud @ammarmahmoud]

For the first time since the conflict began, there is a significant reduction in internal displacement in Sudan. According to @UNmigration, the number of internally displaced persons has fallen to 8.8 million—a 24% decrease from the January 2025 peak of 11.6 million. The trend is being driven by growing numbers of Sudanese returning home following the liberation of Khartoum, Sennar, and Al Jazirah.

[Ayin Network - شبكة عاين @AyinSudan]

Child pornography, rape and other illicit videos from Sudan are being openly sold via networks on the Telegram platform. These are not hidden on the dark web but are sold and promoted out in the open.

...And these networks have only increased in number and popularity in recent months, with hundreds of pieces of content published and advertised each day.

🚨 Stay tuned for our upcoming Ayin investigation looking into these networks.
#Sudan, #KeepEyesOnSudan

@AfricanCentre
@SavetheChildren
@Sihanet

[Reuters @Reuters]

Greece approves quicker migrant returns, aims to set up return hubs https://t.co/zQnNhNjOF0 https://t.co/zQnNhNjOF0

[قناة الجزيرة @AJArabic]

تحقيق استقصائي للجزيرة يكشف أن 51 دولة زودت إسرائيل بإمدادات عسكرية بقيمة 885.6 مليون دولار بين أكتوبر 2023 وأكتوبر 2025 لكن المعلومة الصادمة تفيد بأن 91% من هذه الواردات تدفقت بعد تحذير محكمة العدل الدولية من خطر الإبادة الجماعية

هذه المعلومات وتفاصيل أخرى صادمة في التحقيق تتابعونها في هذه السلسلة ⬇️

[Sudanese Echo @SudaneseEcho]

Sudanese Chemistry Teacher Ibrahim Tara Dies Under Torture in Rapid Support Militia Detention After His Family Paid Ransom

On May 25, 2025, we published the story of Ibrahim Muhammad Ali Tara, a chemistry teacher from Omdurman’s Umbadda locality, who was abducted by the UAE-backed Rapid Support Militia (Janjaweed). At the time, a video showed him in a deeply distressing condition, while his captors used his suffering to pressure his family into paying a ransom for his release.

Today, the tragedy has been confirmed. The Sudanese Teachers’ Committee announced the death of Ibrahim Tara, a secondary school chemistry teacher in Umbadda, inside a detention facility run by the Rapid Support Militia.

In its statement, the committee said Tara was tortured inside one of the militia’s detention centers, describing the abuse as a flagrant violation of all international and human rights norms and conventions.

The committee added that the Rapid Support Militia demanded a financial ransom from Tara’s family in exchange for his release. Although the family paid the ransom, he was never freed. The committee said the news of his death came after he had endured severe torture and starvation. In the circulated video, he appeared in a heartbreaking humanitarian condition, with clear signs of torture, hunger, and neglect.

Ibrahim Tara worked as a secondary school chemistry teacher in Umbadda. He was known in his community as an educator and a civilian who served students and the education sector. His abduction came within a wider pattern of violations committed by the Rapid Support Militia (Janjaweed) against civilians, including teachers, doctors, community figures, and ordinary families. The militia has used abduction, torture, and extortion as tools to terrorize civilians and rob families of their money.

Tara’s case sheds light on another face of the militia’s crimes: abducting civilians, torturing them, starving them, filming them in degrading conditions, and then extorting their families for ransom. Even after ransom payments are made, victims remain at risk of being killed, disappeared, or left to die under torture and neglect inside detention centers.

The death of Ibrahim Tara must be documented as part of a wider record of abductions, torture, extortion, and deaths in detention carried out by the Rapid Support Militia (Janjaweed). The targeting of a civilian teacher in this way is an attack on society, education, families, and Sudan’s future.

May Ibrahim Muhammad Ali Tara rest in peace. His death stands as further testimony to the crimes of this militia and to the urgent need for documentation, accountability, and justice.

#Sudan
#RSFisTerroristOrganization
#UAEKillsSudanesePeople
#UAESponsorsTerrorism

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 THE DEATH OF THE DOLLAR IN EAST AFRICA? 🇹🇿 💵

​If you think dedollarization is just a theory, think again. Tanzania just officially locked the U.S. Dollar out of its domestic economy.

​As detailed in the legal breakdowns the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) has completely banned the use of USD and other foreign currencies for local transactions. The one-year grace period for existing contracts officially ended this month (June 2026).

​Here is what is now strictly ILLEGAL inside Tanzania:

​❌ No USD Pricing: You cannot quote, display, or advertise prices in USD or EUR. Everything must be in Tanzanian Shillings (TZS).

​❌ No Foreign Cash for Local Deals: Accepting or forcing payments in foreign currency for local goods/services is a criminal offense.

​❌ No Rejecting Shillings: Refusing to accept the local currency is officially a punishable crime.

​Why does this matter:
This isn't a temporary rule—it is fully codified under Government Notice No. 198. The government is aggressively moving to protect and strengthen the Tanzanian Shilling (TZS) by forcing every single local business, hotel, and supplier to drop the greenback.

​Is this the blueprint for the rest of the continent? 👇🏿

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

Nine out of 15 migrants deported from the United States to the Democratic Republic of Congo in April have returned to their home countries, Congo's government, a migrant and her lawyer said on Friday. https://t.co/K2KudItgFP

[Rich Tedd 🛰 ✈️ @AfriMEOSINT]

RSF fighters are continuing to use Ethiopian Airlines flights to travel to and from Sudan’s Blue Nile State 🇸🇩, likely transiting from N'Djamena 🇹🇩 to Asosa Airport 🇪🇹. This footage shows several RSF fighters on a @flyethiopian flight before later being seen in Blue Nile State.

[Mada Masr مدى مصر @MadaMasr]

The bylaws for Egypt’s first ever asylum law were finally issued on Monday — a full year after the legal deadline for their completion. They lay out a nine month deadline for a new state committee to replace the UNHCR’s role in handling refugee application cases — a rush that a lawyer cautioned could leave refugees exposed and vulnerable.
https://t.co/EKh6rkGiBU

[Eric Reeves @sudanreeves]

There can be no plea of ignorance: inadequate though it may be, news coverage of genocide in #Sudan—which is occasioning the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis—makes clear the brutal, cynical, and destructive role of the #UAE. That the National Basketball Association (#NBA) should choose to partner with an authoritarian “petro-fiefdom”—despite its own massive wealth, wealth enjoyed by players and teams alike—is an obscene greed.

The dollars generated by partnerships with the UAE are blood money—for Emirati wealth is directly supporting the genocidal Rapid Support Forces (#RSF), thereby prolonging Sudan’s agonizing, incomprehensibly destructive war.

The New York #Knicks, now in the NBA Finals, are particularly culpable, as noted in this Zeteo oped…

[The Sentry @TheSentry_Org]

The @NBA is suddenly changing course. For 75 years, NBA players and coaches have stood up against injustice. But today, the NBA has a $300M sponsorship with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE also sponsors a genocidal militia in Sudan with weapons & drones that kill civilians.

The NBA made the wrong call. End the @emirates deal.
Learn more and act now: https://t.co/ltAKhVUpnP

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

THREAD

On June 3, 2019, there was a massacre on the streets of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum.

This is the story of that massacre, told through the phone cameras of those who kept filming, even as they came under live fire.

#BBCAfricaEye