Conflict and Security

These accusations against Abu Dhabi of supporting a group responsible for massacres, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, they’re not new,” he said. “If they were going to change purely on the basis of public and diplomatic opinion, one would have thought that that shift would have already taken place.”

Ukraine has the capacity to be an enduring actor in Europe's security landscape but its own export restrictions and complex regulatory frameworks have blocked many of Ukraine's most advanced defence systems from entering European markets.

There have been several regional enablers and spoilers that have sustained the conflict and contributed to a massive ramp up in domestic military capabilities across both the RSF and SAF. UN analysis, US intelligence reports, and investigative journalists have described alleged arms flows from the UAE to the RSF through a web of brokers, proxies, and middlemen that span Libya, Chad, Uganda, and the Central African Republic. Likewise, there's been allegations of logistical support for the Sudanese army from Egypt, and an influx of Iranian drones and Russian munitions to the Sudanese army, and also sales, allegedly amounting to $120 million, from Turkish arms companies that include drones and various warheads to the Sudanese army."