Al-Hakika * The Truth*
The first specialized electronic periodical documenting the crimes of the Rapid Support Forces militia, serving as a reference for organizations and mechanisms concerned with protecting human rights worldwide. Published in three languages.
Special Edition
Ethiopia gives up Its Land and Will to Implement the UAE’s Agenda in Sudan
▪︎ UAE drones with Ethiopian wings attack the Sudanese people.
▪︎ Hemedti’s confession: Colombian mercenaries operate the drones.
▪︎ The UAE uses Ethiopia to open new fronts in the Sudanese war.
▪︎ Abiy Ahmed makes Ethiopia a platform for launching drones against the Sudanese people.
▪︎ The first direct evidence of Ethiopia’s involvement in the UAE’s war on Sudan.
▪︎ Ethiopia’s entry as an explicit party to the war places it in the realm of direct regional and international conflict.
▪︎ Ethiopian intervention places the security of the region and the area in grave danger, for which the UAE bears responsibility.
Introduction:
The UAE has used several African countries bordering Sudan as proxies for its project to control the country through militias and mercenaries. Observers often notice the suspicious behavior of some of these countries, which are being used as a stage for aggression against the Sudanese people, despite their professed commitment to peace. This was evident in the pronouncements of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during his visit to Port Sudan and his meeting with the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. However, his true hostile intentions toward the Sudanese people were soon revealed as he paved the way for a camp for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia and mercenaries from Ethiopia and South Sudan near the border between the two countries.
Instead of adopting the supposed neutrality or the peace process, this African leader chose to become a tool for expanding the drone war in Sudan, a launching pad and a new front from which drones can be launched to destroy Sudan and kill its people. Abiy Ahmed decided to contribute to tightening the siege on the Sudanese people, extending it to the eastern region, thus joining the southern and western borders.
Opening of new fronts in southeastern Sudan, employing more sophisticated techniques, confirms the UAE’s persistence and arrogance in its destructive scheme. It exploits weak-willed and petty officials who are ignorant of their countries’ and people’s interests, implementing an agenda that will ultimately consume them. This fire will not be far from their own countries, and no amount of compromise will extinguish it.
This move by the Ethiopian Prime Minister is part of a coordinated effort to perpetuate instability, aiming to leverage the inclusion of criminals and murderers in power. This goal is unattainable after the Sudanese people’s determination to eradicate the militias that have inflicted immense suffering, terror, and death upon them.
Confession is the strongest evidence: Hemedti makes a resounding admission from Kampala
In a lengthy speech broadcast on media outlets and addressed to his supporters and his former government in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo admitted to recruiting Colombian mercenaries to operate drones. However, he conspicuously failed to mention that the UAE conceived, executed, and funded the training and arms purchases themselves—a fact that requires no documentation or authorization from Dagalo.
Hemedti’s forces have repeatedly denied this, despite the display of bodies, identification cards, and Colombian passports belonging to mercenaries in El Fasher and elsewhere, and the public confessions of surviving mercenaries admitting to participating in the Sudanese war under Emirati auspices.
Hemedti’s presence in Uganda came a day after a report by the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan stated that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had carried out a coordinated campaign of destruction against non-Arab communities in and around El Fasher, a city in western Sudan. The report asserted that the campaign’s distinctive features indicated genocide and confirmed the occurrence of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The report, submitted to the Human Rights Council and titled “Characteristics of Genocide in El Fasher,” revealed that genocidal intent was the only plausible conclusion to be drawn from the systematic pattern of ethnically targeted killings, sexual violence, and destruction perpetrated by the RSF, as well as from public statements explicitly calling for the extermination of non-Arab communities, particularly the Zaghawa and Fur.
Hemedti’s admission of recruiting Colombian mercenaries to operate drones in Sudan marks the first public acknowledgment of the regional aggression against Sudan, spearheaded by the United Arab Emirates, from whose territory the plane carrying the militia leader to Entebbe took off.
UAE Funds Secret Training Camp in Ethiopia for Rapid Support Forces Fighters
An investigative report published by Reuters and prepared by journalists Julia Paravicini and Redi Levinson has revealed alarming details of a new regional involvement in the Sudanese war. The report presents documented information indicating that Ethiopia has established a secret training camp on its territory to train thousands of fighters for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), with direct support and funding from the United Arab Emirates. The investigation relied on statements from Ethiopian government and security sources, internal memos, diplomatic cables, and satellite imagery analysis showing construction progress at the camp and the nearby Assosa airport.
This camp represents the first direct evidence of Ethiopia’s involvement in the UAE’s war in Sudan, a potentially dangerous development as it provides the RSF with a significant supply of new recruits at a time when fighting is escalating in South Sudan.
Eight sources, including a senior Ethiopian government official, said the United Arab Emirates funded the construction of the camp and provided military trainers and logistical support for the site. This assessment was also included in an internal Ethiopian security memo and a diplomatic cable seen by Reuters.
Reuters reported that it spoke to 15 sources familiar with the camp’s construction and operation, including Ethiopian officials and diplomats, and analyzed satellite imagery of the area. Two Ethiopian intelligence officials, along with satellite imagery, provided information that corroborated the details in the security memo and diplomatic cable.
Information about the camp’s location, size, and the specific allegations of Emirati involvement had not been previously published. The images show the extent of the site’s recent expansion in recent weeks, along with the construction of a drone ground control station at a nearby airport.
Satellite images indicate that activity at the camp, located in the remote Benishangul-Gumuz region of western Ethiopia near the border with Sudan, has increased significantly since October.
Ethiopia is thus boldly aligning itself with Sudan’s enemies, driven by greed for Emirati funds and a portion of Sudanese territory. This approach reflects a shortsighted understanding of the strategic importance of relations between the two neighboring countries. Plans to seize land by force have failed before and will fail again. Such approaches undermine the prospects for integration among African nations, transforming them instead into mercenary states that readily sell their land and their voices for dirhams, dinars, and dollars.
Expanding Drone Warfare Network Supported by the UAE
A recent report published by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanities Research Laboratory reveals the increasing Emirati support and the country’s eagerness to expand the war by developing the Rapid Support Forces’ drone warfare capabilities within Sudan.
The report documents previously unknown launch sites, large mobile ammunition depots, and anti-aircraft systems near Nyala in South Darfur. It also analyzes a series of deadly attacks that occurred in the country during January 2026.
According to researchers at Yale University, satellite imagery collected in January and early February 2026 revealed at least 85 objects with characteristics consistent with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at two different locations controlled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia (formerly known as Janjaweed) within the city of Nyala. UAVs are a specialized type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), sometimes referred to as suicide drones, that combine an explosive warhead with a guided flight platform in a single system.
At the first location, near Nyala Airport, analysts identified at least 34 UAVs on January 10, 2026, near a shipping container. In subsequent imagery dated February 4, 2026, the number increased to at least 40 UAVs, with the container appearing open, indicating operational activity. Furthermore, 34 of these UAVs remained in the same locations in both images, suggesting a long-term stockpile and ongoing operational readiness.
The report confirmed that these munitions were located at the same site within Nyala Airport where drones similar to the Shahed model were previously sighted in May and September 2025. These earlier sightings coincided with a wave of attacks attributed to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia (Janjaweed), including attacks on Port Sudan and the horrific destruction of the Al-Sarfiya Mosque in El Fasher in September 2025, an attack that killed more than 70 civilians.
The second newly discovered site is located approximately 2.5 kilometers east of the former UNAMID Southern Sector headquarters, known as Camp Big. Images taken on January 5, 2026, showed approximately 51 objects consistent with mobile munitions, along with their associated launch platforms. These munitions had disappeared from the images by January 22, 2026, suggesting they may have been moved or used in subsequent operations.
This new site also contains at least 50 shipping containers that first appeared in October 2025, while drone launch pads became visible starting in mid-October 2025, and mobile munitions first appeared in January 2026. Although the munitions later disappeared, most of the launch pads remain, indicating that the site is being developed into a permanent military facility.
By documenting concrete and verifiable evidence, the Yale University report provides one of the clearest pictures to date of how drone warfare is expanding in Sudan and underscores the urgent need for serious international action to protect civilians from the escalating operations of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia (formerly known as the Janjaweed).
The Yale report indicates that these munitions are consistent with the Shahed 136 family of drones, including models known as the Sunflower 200 and ZT-180, which have an estimated operational range of 1,500 to 2,500 kilometers. This range gives the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia the ability to conduct deep strikes inside Sudanese territory and at considerable distances.
In addition to offensive capabilities, the report documented the presence of mobile anti-aircraft systems near the former UNAMID headquarters. Satellite imagery shows a large vehicle equipped with a rotary device consistent with modern air defense systems. This system was first observed in August 2025 and then redeployed westward between October 2025 and January 2026. Open sources indicate that the RSF militia has previously used advanced systems such as the Pantsir and FK2000.
The report also provided alarming documentation of a series of drone attacks carried out by the RSF militia across Sudan between January 5 and 22, 2026. These attacks targeted areas including Dilling, Merowe, El Obeid, Atbara, Gezira, Sinja, Kosti, and several towns in South and North Kordofan. In many of these attacks, the militia directly targeted civilian areas, including markets, residential neighborhoods and public facilities, resulting in large numbers of civilian deaths and injuries.
For example, according to the report, at least 12 civilians were killed on January 6, 2026, in a drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia (Janjaweed) on the Jabalya neighborhood of El Obeid. On January 11, a drone attack by the militia on the Kartala market in the Habeila locality killed at least five civilians and injured several others. Multiple reports also documented other attacks by the militia in Sinja, Kosti, and various other towns and villages, all of which resulted in widespread casualties and significant damage to civilian infrastructure.
The report confirmed that the drone war has escalated considerably since the outbreak of the conflict in April 2023. Initially, the RSF militia (Janjaweed) used small drones to drop explosives, but by January 2025, they had begun to possess more advanced drones, and their capabilities later expanded to include long-range cruise missiles.
The report indicated that the UAE is widely documented as a major supporter of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia (Janjaweed), and that Nyala Airport has become a key logistical hub for transporting weapons and equipment to this militia.
The Yale report warned that the significant increase in the number of mobile munitions possessed by the RSF militia (Janjaweed) poses a grave danger to civilians, given the militia’s bloody record of targeting markets, mosques, hospitals, community kitchens, and other vital infrastructure.
For Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to throw the sons of the Ethiopian people into the inferno of a war of aggression against Sudanese sovereignty is a blatant violation of international law, and a war whose outcome is already decided in favor of the Sudanese people. Ethiopia’s direct involvement in the war places it in the realm of direct regional and international conflict, which puts the security of the region and the wider area in grave danger, a responsibility for which the UAE bears.
