Videos and photos have surfaced online reportedly showing a warehouse of Emirati ammunition and missiles in Wad Madani, Sudan, after the country’s military captured the strategic city from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).The videos show members of Sudan’s military walking around the warehouse, which is filled with large boxes, and one Sudanese soldier saying the weapons all originate from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), reports the Middle East Eye.
On January 11, the Sudanese military said it, along with allied armed groups, captured Wad Madani, the capital of Sudan’s al-Jazira state.
For a year, the city was under the control of the RSF, the paramilitary force currently fighting the Sudanese army in a civil war that has been ongoing since April 2023.
RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, acknowledged defeat in Wad Madani but continued to say that the war was not over.
“We lost Wad Madani, but we will reclaim it. People just need to regroup, reorganise and reassess themselves,” he said, as quoted by Al Jazeera.
The war in Sudan between the Sudanese army and the RSF has displaced over 11 million people, according to the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM), with more than eight million people on the brink of famine according to the UN.
On Tuesday, the US government announced that it was declaring that a genocide is taking place in Sudan, and moved to sanction the RSF’sDagalo and his relatives.
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