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To General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s de facto head of state and commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), foreign interference has been the main force prolonging his country’s brutal war. In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly last September, he pointedly stated, “Without this support… the war in Sudan would have ended,” a thinly veiled reference to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Backed by mounting evidence, Sudan took the unprecedented step of filing a complaint against the UAE at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of complicity in genocide. On 5 May, the Court dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction. The decision highlighted a glaring loophole in the Genocide Convention: states can shield themselves […]
