The UAE…a humanitarian and diplomatic commitment towards Sudan

The UAE continues to adhere to its firm stance towards the Sudanese civil war that broke out in April 2023, through clear strategic messages that combine a firm condemnation of serious violations, a call for an immediate cessation of the war, and a push towards a civilian-led political solution.

Since the first days of the crisis, through official statements issued successively from May 2023 until October 2025, the UAE has stressed the need to protect civilians and stop targeting residential neighborhoods, calling on the international community to assume its responsibilities towards the crimes and violations documented daily in Sudan.

In this context, on June 9, 2024, the UAE condemned the shameful attacks against civilians in the city of El Fasher, describing them as a “dangerous escalation and a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law,” demanding the opening of humanitarian corridors and ensuring urgent protection for civilians. It also condemned in a statement published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on February 14, 2025, what was reported by UN reports that revealed the use of chemical weapons in the areas of West Darfur, considering that the use of these weapons against civilians is a war crime that cannot be overlooked.

The UAE stressed that indiscriminate bombing, field executions, sexual violence, preventing humanitarian aid, and cutting off supplies to the population are practices that must stop immediately, with the need to hold their perpetrators accountable.

The UAE believes that all parties involved in the conflict bear shared responsibility for the atrocities committed since the beginning of the conflict, and that the continuation of military operations will only prolong the suffering and deepen the humanitarian crisis, a position it reaffirmed during an official intervention at the Human Rights Council on March 3, 2025, where it called for an end to violations against women and children, and to ensure comprehensive protection for civilians under international humanitarian law.

The UAE adheres to its position regarding the war in Sudan, which believes that the political path is the only way to end the crisis. Since its participation in Jeddah in May 2023, through the meetings in Manama in June 2024, Geneva in October 2024, and Washington in July 2025, the UAE has called for a comprehensive political solution that puts the interests of the Sudanese people above the interests of the warring parties, stressing the necessity of launching a transitional process led by independent civilians, away from armed and extremist forces. With the aim of forming a civilian government within 9 months that has the legitimacy and ability to restore state institutions and maintain the stability of the country.

On September 12, 2025, the UAE welcomed the statement issued by the “Quartet” (the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Egypt), and considered it an important breakthrough in the course of the crisis and a turning point towards relaunching the political process, declaring its support for the statement within the framework of its commitment to alleviate the suffering of the Sudanese, stop the escalation, and cooperate with the international community to return the political track to its correct path.

The UAE also stressed the need to achieve a humanitarian truce for a period of 3 months, an initiative it announced on April 5, 2025, with the aim of opening safe corridors for humanitarian aid in light of international reports indicating the need for 25 million people inside Sudan for urgent aid, including more than 4.5 million displaced since the beginning of the war, considering that this truce must pave the way for a permanent ceasefire, allowing the launch of a comprehensive and transparent political process.

UAE support went beyond diplomatic statements to include direct support for the Sudanese people through massive humanitarian and development aid, as the country provided approximately $3.9 billion in aid during the period from 2014 to 2025.

During the period from May 2023 to December 2024, the UAE sent more than 122 cargo planes to Port Sudan and Darfur, carrying a total of 8,300 tons of food, medical and shelter supplies.

The UAE has given great importance to the health aspect in supporting our Sudanese brothers, as it built two field hospitals in the cities of Amdgrass and Abéché in Chad to provide medical services to Sudanese refugees in neighboring countries. It also opened a hospital in the Madol area in Bahr El Ghazal State in South Sudan, in addition to providing support to more than 127 health facilities in 14 states.

The UAE provided direct aid to more than 650,000 people inside Sudan, including providing electricity generators to damaged hospitals, rehabilitating a number of water centers, and providing food supplies to about 180,000 families. In November 2024, the state launched an emergency campaign to provide 100,000 food baskets to residents of the states of Al-Jazira and Kassala, within an air bridge that included 14 flights within one week.

The UAE has repeatedly stressed that its support for the Sudanese people is not linked to the circumstances of the conflict only, but rather comes within a long-term humanitarian commitment towards Sudan, and the state participated in reconstruction efforts and development projects before the outbreak of war, including support for education, health and infrastructure programs in the period between 2016 and 2022.

In the face of the media misinformation campaigns that have accompanied the Sudanese conflict since mid-2024, the UAE expressed its concern about attempts to distort the facts and divert attention from humanitarian and diplomatic efforts, and stressed in an official statement issued on September 7, 2025 that media misinformation prolongs the war and increases the suffering of civilians, calling for confronting hate speech and misleading propaganda, and supporting responsible media that conveys the facts and contributes to strengthening the path of peace.

The UAE warned of the danger of the growth of extremist and terrorist groups inside Sudan, noting in an international security meeting in July 2025 that the spread of these groups constitutes a direct threat to the stability of the region, and called for international cooperation to besiege the sources of terrorism and prevent its expansion.

These successive positions embody a clear Emirati vision based on supporting the Sudanese people, rejecting war, protecting civilians, and pushing towards sustainable political solutions. They also confirm continuing to work with the international community to ensure a ceasefire, facilitate the arrival of humanitarian aid, and strengthen the civilian-led transitional path, in a way that helps Sudan overcome one of its most complex crises in its modern history.