This is how the Rapid Support Force Janjaweed (RSF/J) commits genocidal atrocities daily in Sudan’s civil war backed by the UAE.

By Lt. Gen.  (Ret.) Abakar Mahamat Abdallah and Jerry Gordon[i]

This video shows how RSF/J troops killed a truck driver and his assistants. Therefore, these thugs must be crushed and defeated to the end.

“Victory from God and a near conquest.”

This is the translation of the above Arabic Language clip.

RSF/J elements in the District of An Nuhud in Western Kordofan carried out this massacre. It is located about 100 km west of Al-Ubayyiḍ, the Regional Capital of Kordofan.

The RSF/Janjaweed militias attacked the town of An Nuhud on May 1, 2025, and committed similar atrocities that occurred in the Zam Zam UN IDP camp.  They killed more than 300 people in An Nuhud, raped women and kidnaped girls, and carried them to unknown locations. They called the girls’ families by phone and told them they should go and claim their daughters if they were brave enough. The militias also robbed stores and cars. They displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Several people were seized and carried away by the RSF/J. forces. To date, no one knows their whereabouts.

Watching this video, one can imagine the degree of hatred the RSF/J militias have toward the Sudanese people who oppose them. How can one kill a human being and then crush his dead body with a car? What do they gain from this action? One can see all of them standing by, happily watching the scene, and praising themselves for what they are doing! We witnessed similar behavior when the same RSF/J militias assassinated the Governor of Western Darfur in El Geneina in 2023 and left his dead body to their children and wives to act with.

Note: The people of An Nuhud are Arabs based on their ethnicity or tribal affiliation. They are Arabs known as Humar. However, they are not the same clan as the Reizeigat Arab tribes from which the RSF/J militias originated.

The RSF/J militias are ready to kill all people who don’t belong to their kindred Arab clans. They kill whoever is opposing them and is not affiliated with the Reizeigat Arab tribe, regardless of their ethnicity, race, or religion.

As previously mentioned in our New English Review articles, the Arab coalition intended to establish an Arab state in Darfur and the African Sahel region. The RSF/J is struggling to turn Sudan into an Arab country, ruled and led by a family of the Junid Arab tribe, ruled by the RSF/J Commander Lt. General Mohamed Hamdan Dogolo (Hemetti) and his brother Abderahim, backed by the UAE.

The Sudan National Congress Party (NCP), under former Sudan president and dictator Omar Bashir, created the Rapid Support Force/Janjaweed (RSF/J) militias to protect the NCP and its leadership from Darfur resistance movements. The RSF/J militias turned the country of Sudan into a state of chaos where lawlessness prevailed. General Hemetti’s disappearance from the scene left the militias without an apparent command authority. The RSF/J militias have no leadership structural command hierarchy nor a clear objective other than fomenting the wanton killing of innocent people and looting booty to enrich themselves. They murder innocent civilians, rape and kidnap girls to use as sex slaves or sell them to criminals in neighboring states.

The UAE, a close ally of the former Sudan regime of Bashir, contributed to the genocide in Darfur by providing weapons, funding, and political support.

A good example is when a South African Judge tried to arrest former President Bashir under an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant. The South African Court attempted to arrest Bashir during his visit to South Africa, where UAE authorities paid a hundred million dollars to circumvent the arrest warrants that were issued by the ICC, which allowed Bashir to escape. Surprisingly, the UAE revealed its hidden intentions, which appeared to be the true enemy of the Sudanese people and regime as well. The oil-rich Gulf state provides unwavering assistance to the militias, including strategic weapons such as third-generation drones and radars. It prolongs the civil war so that she can exploit Sudan’s rich resources.

The UAE spent millions of dollars bribing some Sudan governments and authorities and neighboring countries, enabling it to use their territories and airport facilities to deliver military equipment to the RSF/J.  The UAE leadership funds the RSF/J militias that have committed massacres in Sudan, causing the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives,  as well as the destruction of basic infrastructures of the civil institutions in Sudan. The UAE continually plunders gold from the mines of Songo, Brediq, and Jebel Amir, controlled by RSF/J militias.

Ali Mhammud, former Governor of South Darfur, stated that Hemetti exported 60 tons of gold to the UAE since Bashir’s fall. Furthermore, the UAE buys gold produced by artisanal mining in Eastern Jebel Marra. Moreover, the UAE engaged in illegal trade by purchasing ivory from poachers. Elephants are legally protected animals. However, the UAE coordinated with poachers in the trade of ivory. The sources in Nyala, South Darfur Regional Capital, reported that cargo airplanes regularly land at the airport filled with weapons and ammunition, which are then loaded with gold, ivory, and wounded RSF/J soldiers and transported to the UAE.

The UAE is conducting the internal war in Sudan directly through its military officers, hiring mercenaries as technicians operating drones, radars, and warplanes. The UAE also recruits mercenaries from the African Sahel region countries and foreign countries from as far away as Colombia to support its war in Sudan. It sponsors the RSF/J militias and militaries in some neighboring countries. Using drones from bases in the neighboring countries, the UAE was able to strike strategic targets in Port-Sudan and Kassala. Its Drones struck the airports of Port-Sudan and Kassala on May 4, 2025, causing massive damage and disrupting air travel in the entire country. RSF/J militias have no technical capabilities to man strategic weapons such as drones and radars. Therefore, these attacks indicated that the UAE military had engaged directly in the war in Sudan.

Despite all these visible activities carried out daily by UAE under Mohamed Ibn Zayed, the international community has been silent about the Gulf Country’s support of the RSF/J militia’s destruction and massive loss of civilian lives in Sudan. It supports that the RSF/J has caused massive population displacement, genocide, and humanitarian crises. The international community should intervene and stop UAE support for the RSF/J militias to put an end to the war in Sudan and bring lasting peace.

 _{Lt. Gen. Abakar M. Abdallah is a retired Chadian commander of the Pan-Sahel Counterterrorism Unit. He graduated from the U.S. Army Intelligence School, the U.S. Army War College, and the Counterterrorism program at the U.S. National Defense University. He serves as the Chairman of the Sudan United Movement. He is the co-author of  Genocide in Sudan: Caliphate Threatens Africa and the World with Jerome B. Gordon and Deborah Martin, JAD Publishing, 2017. Jerry Gordon is a Senior Editor at The New English Review}