It showed that as RSF and allied fighters systematically raped, tortured, and murdered Masalit people, the Army forces simply stood by. The Masalit and other Black ethnic groups in southern and ...

According to the Dar Masalit Sultanate, an organization representing the Masalit people of the state, "since the beginning of the armed clashes in [West Darfur's administrative center] Geneina and ...

The application also concerns “acts adopted, condoned, taken, and being taken by the Government of the UAE in connection with the genocide against the Masalit group in the Republic of the Sudan ...

Sudan alleges that the UAE was “complicit in the genocide on the Masalit through its direction of and provision of extensive financial, political, and military support for the rebel RSF militia ...

and violation of human rights” targeting the Masalit people. The UAE said it would seek an “immediate dismissal” of the case.

The charges are in connection with intense ethnic-based attacks by the RSF and allied Arab militias against the non-Arab Masalit tribe in 2023 in West Darfur, documented in detail by Reuters.

Sudan has filed an application to open proceedings against the United Arab Emirates before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over alleged complicity in acts of genocide against the Masalit ...