Civil War in Sudan 🇸🇩 (April 2023-Present)

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-united-arab-emirates-feud-trump-call.html

Behind the scenes, tensions had simmered for years between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two powerful U.S. allies. It took a call from President Trump to bring those tensions crashing into the open.
In November, Mr. Trump called the Emirati president, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, to discuss a private conversation he had with Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, according to four people briefed on the call by Emirati officials.
The American president relayed that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, had asked him to impose sanctions on the Emirates during a visit to the White House that month, the four people said. They said the sanctions were over the Emirati government’s support for an armed group fighting in Sudan’s civil war.
A regional map highlighting United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

A Saudi official offered a different account, saying that Prince Mohammed had asked Mr. Trump to place additional sanctions on the Sudanese armed group to prevent it from getting external support, not to impose measures on the Emirates directly. The Saudi leadership made the request because it believed that if the Emirati government backed down, the war in Sudan would end, according to the official.

A U.S. official said that Prince Mohammed never asked President Trump to impose sanctions on the Emirates, but did not comment on the call.
While the details are in dispute, the fallout is not. Soon after Mr. Trump’s call, latent tensions between the Saudi and Emirati governments erupted into a public feud.
The information relayed by Mr. Trump infuriated senior Emirati officials, who felt betrayed by Saudi Arabia, once one of their closest allies, the four people briefed on the conversation said. Relations rapidly deteriorated, hitting a nadir in December when Saudi Arabia bombed an Emirati shipment to Yemen.
The discord between the two neighbors, both oil-rich countries that have cultivated vast global influence, has far-reaching consequences, with the potential to move markets and exacerbate wars. Their competition for dominance in the region has already reshaped the future of Yemen and threatens to worsen conflicts in the Horn of Africa, where the two powers have situated themselves on opposing sides in multiple countries.

The four people briefed by the Emirati officials, all spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss diplomatically sensitive conversations, as did the U.S. official and the Saudi official. The Emirati foreign ministry declined to comment on the call.

Sudan’s devastating civil war had previously received little attention from the Trump administration. Saudi Arabia supports the Sudanese armed forces, while the Emirates has been the principal backer of the Rapid Support Forces, or R.S.F., a paramilitary group fighting for control of the country. There is substantial evidence that the Emirates has funneled money, weapons and drones to the R.S.F.

In recent months, the Emirates has faced growing international criticism as the R.S.F. has been accused of committing massacres and other grave human rights violations, particularly around the city of El Fasher in Darfur. United Nations-backed experts said last week that the R.S.F. campaign bore the “hallmarks of genocide.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-united-arab-emirates-feud-trump-call.html

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Nope. But with recent events, the winds might be taken off the sails of the RSF