Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman has reaffirmed her accusation that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is directly involved in financing and arming Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—a militia widely accused of committing war crimes and acts of genocide against civilians, particularly in Darfur and the city of El Fasher. Her statement comes in response to an investigative report published by The Wall Street Journal, which cites U.S. intelligence findings on the UAE’s involvement.

In a post on her official Facebook page, Karman said the report confirms that the UAE is “not a bystander in the Sudanese tragedy, but the principal financier and arms supplier of the RSF—responsible for horrific atrocities and ongoing genocide against the Sudanese people.”

According to The Wall Street Journal, U.S. intelligence assessments indicate that Abu Dhabi intensified its shipments of weapons and Chinese-made drones to the RSF after the group’s loss of Khartoum. These military supplies, the report states, were transported covertly through Somalia and Libya before reaching Sudan by land.

Karman described these actions as “a deliberate act of external aggression, funded and orchestrated by a state that insists on undermining regional security and igniting conflict across the Arab world.”

She called on the international community to assume its moral and legal responsibilities by halting such involvement and holding accountable those who finance and arm the perpetrators of war crimes.

“Remaining silent about the genocide unfolding in Sudan,” Karman warned, “is itself a crime no less heinous than the atrocities being committed.”