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Why does Ethiopia support genocide in Sudan?
How did the host of the African Union become a staging ground for a g*nocide against indigenous Africans?
Under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia is supporting the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia. Reuters reported on a secret training camp for the RSF in the Benishangul region of western Ethiopia that borders Sudan, with the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab exposing how an Ethiopian army base is being used to assist the militia.
In addition, Ethiopia is serving as the primary transit hub for Emirati weapons to the RSF, making it an active participant in the destruction of Sudan.
Since 2018, the UAE has functioned as Ethiopia’s financial lifeline. But this billions-of-dollars in “assistance” comes with a blood-stained price tag: supporting Abu Dhabi’s sub-imperial project.
The UAE’s goal is extraction: loot Sudan’s gold, seize its agricultural wealth and control its strategic Red Sea ports. To achieve this, they have turned Ethiopia into a corridor for weapons used to perpetrate g*nocide.
Nonetheless, Ethiopia is just one piece of a “Ring of Fire” the UAE has built around Sudan by leveraging its petro-dollars.
On Sudan’s western border, Chad operates as a supply hub under the guise of “humanitarian aid,” even as the RSF kills the Chadian President’s own kin. On Sudan’s northern border, territory controlled by Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army, an Emirati proxy, is used to funnel arms. On Sudan’s southern borders, the Central African Republic and South Sudan serve as logistical chains for the RSF.
The RSF have found support in the Horn of Africa too. Kenya and Uganda hosted the militia. The autonomous Puntland region of Somalia was used to facilitate RSF supplies. But after Somalia kicked out the UAE for violating its sovereignty, Ethiopia became the indispensable gateway for the UAE’s project.This is the ultimate betrayal of Pan-Africanism. Abiy Ahmed is participating in a cycle where African states destroy one another to benefit an external master. When sovereignty is for sale to the highest bidder, the scramble for Africa never ends
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