Sudan has accused the United Arab Emirates of using international platforms to protect and legitimise the Rapid Support Forces, a militia group that has been widely linked to war crimes and mass atrocities during the ongoing civil conflict.

In a statement issued on Saturday, Sudan’s Foreign Ministry alleged that the UAE was manipulating global forums to shield RSF from condemnation, despite the militia’s well-documented links to the Janjaweed and its involvement in atrocities against civilians.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns the frantic hostile efforts of the Abu Dhabi regime, the regional sponsor of the terrorist Janjaweed militia, in international forums against Sudan, as an extension of its ongoing aggression against the Sudanese people, their national state, and their economic, cultural, and historical assets, through the militia of genocide," the statement read.

Sudan pointed to recent diplomatic meetings held by the Non-Aligned Movement in New York, accusing the UAE of trying to suppress solidarity with Sudan and block any reference to RSF as a rebel group.

"The Ministry has monitored the deplorable actions of the Abu Dhabi regime's delegation during the recent meetings of the Non-Aligned Movement at the expert level in New York last week, aimed at excluding the text expressing solidarity with Sudan from the draft statement and avoiding describing the terrorist militia as a rebel entity against national legitimacy," the statement added.

According to Sudan, this is not an isolated incident. It claims similar efforts were made by the UAE during meetings of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul and in the Council of the League of Arab States.

In these sessions, the UAE allegedly worked to block or weaken any statements condemning RSF violence or linking Abu Dhabi to its actions.

Sudan further alleged that the UAE attempted to introduce language about a "parallel government" during the Non-Aligned Movement meeting—an act Khartoum described as a direct attempt to legitimise an illegitimate authority that lacks international recognition.

"These exposed actions confirm the organic relationship between the Abu Dhabi regime and the terrorist militia, portraying it as a rogue regime that violates international norms and laws, as well as the traditions and ethics of collective diplomacy, and provide further evidence of that regime's insistence on its malicious interventions in Sudan's internal affairs," said the ministry.

The statement also referenced global media investigations, particularly a recent report by The New York Times, which allegedly confirmed that RSF leaders operate from UAE territory under the guidance and support of the Emirati government.

"These efforts corroborate what international media has revealed about the Abu Dhabi regime's hosting of the militia's leadership and its full supervision of all its activities, as detailed in the recent investigative report by The New York Times in this regard," Sudan added.

Sudan concluded by urging international governments and organisations to take action and prevent what it described as efforts by the UAE to protect war criminals and fuel instability through diplomatic cover.

"The Ministry calls on the international community, including its states and organizations, to prevent the Abu Dhabi regime from using international forums to encourage impunity and protect the terrorism and genocide embodied by the Janjaweed militia and its regional sponsor," the statement said.