Kenya’s increasing involvement with both the United Arab Emirates and the paramilitary group Abu Dhabi backs in Sudan – the Rapid Support Forces – bodes ill for the country. That is the warning from Ahmed Maglad, a Sudanese doctor. He points to Chad and the Central African Republic, as well as his own country, all of which have been victims of the RSF. He predicts Kenya’s president William Ruto will end up a UAE puppet, like – he claims – Chad’s leader.
Kenya has allegedly been used as a conduit between the UAE and the RSF. A Reuters report claimed that planes shipping weapons to the genocidal militia have often used Mombasa as a transit point. Kenya is also a key player in the gold-smuggling business according to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, with high-ranking officials implicated – and the UAE being the biggest customer. Nairobi has also shielded the RSF politically – for example, with the red-carpet welcome accorded to RSF chief Hemedti in January 2024 and the recent platforming of the paramilitary, as it outlined plans to carve up Sudan with a rival government in RSF-controlled areas. Ruto even reportedly shared a flight with Hemedti’s brother Abdulrahim Dagalo in November 2024.
Since their emergence in the early 2000s, the RSF – formerly known as the Janjaweed – has been synonymous with heinous human-rights abuses and war crimes, including genocide. Its war against the Sudanese military has created what the UN calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis – with 13-million displaced and half the country facing acute food insecurity. In May 2024, the US envoy to Sudan estimated that up to 150,000 people had already been killed.
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Sources
https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-analysis/details-map/en/c/1157066/?iso3=SDN
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The Middle East IS Babylon and the US is Nineveh😇
This only reaffirms the truth: First, Africans should not trust foreign countries as benevolent or reformed foreign interests and should seek full control and ownership of their lands, minerals, air space and security. Africa for Africans, Africa First! Secondly, Africans need Pan-Africanism. It is not a nice to have, it is necessary for its future survival and capacity to break free from foreign enslavement. The divide and conquer formula works because Africans allow it. Third, the upper-middle-to-upper-class minority across Africa, both corporate and political, that are self-absorbed and uninterested or are serving foreign interests should be stripped of power, lose their citizenship and have land take from them. They can join the refugee list and live in stateless prisons that the West built, controls and keeps from media investigation. Fourth, Africans are going to have to take seriously the need for nuclear weapons. As in soon. This too is not a nice-to-have, the colonising vultures continuously circle. They like blood on their hands when it is not their families, the deck needs to be a bit more even.