By Salim Mohamed Badat
The Dawn of the Fire.
It began at dawn, 15 April 2023, when the sky over Khartoum split open with the scream of gunfire. The Rapid Support Forces did not merely attack military positions; they ambushed a nation.
Under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the Sudanese Armed Forces reeled as Hemedti’s men,once Janjaweed on horseback, now a uniformed death machine, swarmed the capital.
This was not a war born overnight. The power-sharing deal after the fall of Omar al-Bashir had been a brittle façade, cracking under the weight of greed, suspicion, and the question that haunted every negotiation table:
Who will control Sudan’s gold? Who will rule the army? Who will dominate the land?
Darfur had whispered the answer long ago. Arab militias death squads (RSF) versus African farmers. Janjaweed versus the people. Death squads versus humanity.
A Nation Turned Into a Graveyard.
Over nine million Sudanese wander homeless across their own land. Famine hunts them like a wolf. Villages lie in ashes. Children starve beside their dead parents. Women are raped, men executed, bodies mutilated, atrocities committed by militias trained, funded, and armed by the United Arab Emirates.
The RSF is not only a rogue militia. It is Abu Dhabi’s private army, an outsourced killing force. Hemedti is their warlord. His soldiers, their investment.
In Al-Fashir, the last major city holding back the tide of genocide, death tightens its grip every hour. Humanitarian workers speak of scenes that look torn from nightmares: limbs severed, children tortured, women raped in front of their families.
The RSF kills with a creativity that makes even ISIS seem restrained.
If Al-Fashir falls, it will not be a battle.
It will be a genocide. Another city added to the long list, Geneina, Kutum, Nyala, where the soil is made of bone and smoke.
A genocide fed by foreign gold. By foreign greed. By foreign kings who treat African lives as disposable tools in their empire-building.
And just as in Palestine, Yemen, and Libya, the fingerprints on the corpse belong to two hands: Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv.
Gold, Greed, and Genocide.
Sudan’s land is rich, too rich. Gold veins run under its surface like trapped lightning. Agricultural land stretches across the horizon. And along the Red Sea, a coastline that nations would kill for.
The UAE is one of those nations.
It craves the Red Sea, a chokepoint of global trade and energy. It wants the ports, the land, the gold. And Sudan is the next domino.
Investigations by Reuters, Chatham House, and Global Witness have confirmed what the Sudanese already knew: Sudan’s gold is shipped to Dubai, smuggled and unrecorded, washed clean in Emirati refineries.
Families in Darfur dig for gold to eat. That gold ends up in a Dubai vault. And with the wealth from that vault, the UAE buys weapons for the RSF.
A perfect circle of blood.
Sudanese officials have gone to the International Court of Justice, accusing the UAE of violating the Genocide Convention by supplying weapons to the RSF.
They have proof:
UAE-made ammunition. Drones. Empty crates of Emirati supplies found after the RSF massacres.
Gold leaves Sudan.
Weapons return.
People die.
Behind every burned village is a supply chain that begins in the skyscrapers of Dubai and ends in the killing fields of Darfur.
Israel’s Shadow Over the Red Sea.
The UAE does not act alone. Israel, blocked from the Red Sea by Yemen’s Ansarullah, seeks new pathways for its ships and new partners for its ambitions. Sudan’s long coastline is a prize, a potential intelligence hub, a surveillance outpost, a gateway to domination.
Analysts reveal that Israel has maintained contact with Sudanese generals and RSF figures alike. Not for peace. Never for peace. But for leverage, access, and power.
Gold. Ports. Influence.
Chaos is their camouflage.
The playbook is old:
Destabilize. Divide. Extract. Rule.
Zionism written in Arabic, executed by Arab collaborators.
The UAE’s Worldwide Trail of Blood.
Sudan is not the UAE’s first crime scene; it is merely the latest.
In Libya, they bankroll Haftar, bombing civilians into dust.
In Yemen, they arm separatists to splinter a nation already starving.
In Kashmir, they invest billions in Modi’s India while Muslims are beaten, jailed, silenced.
In Europe and the U.S., they fund think tanks that demonize Islam.
In Palestine, they shake Israeli hands while Gaza buries its children.
The UAE has mastered the Zionist art of oppression. They starve, they rape, they terrorise, and then unveil new shopping malls to distract the world. Skyscrapers hiding mass graves. Tourism masking tyranny.
These rulers are not guardians of Islam.
They are betrayers. Traitors wearing white robes soaked in blood.
The Silence of Scholars: A Betrayal Too Great to Ignore.
Yet some shaykhs and imams, men cloaked in scholarship and eloquence, offer legitimacy to the UAE’s crimes.
They stand on stages funded by tyrants.
They speak of “peace” while those who fund them bomb Muslim children.
Among them is Hamza Yusuf, a leading voice in UAE-backed institutions under Abdullah bin Bayyah:
Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies – Hamza Yusuf is Vice-President
Religions for Peace – Hamza Yusuf is Co-President
These institutions have offered the theological cover that normalizes the UAE’s alliances, alliances that helped enable the genocide in Palestine and now bankroll the genocide in Sudan.
Not one clear, public, institutional condemnation of the UAE’s crimes.
Only soft words. Praise. Silence.
Silence that costs lives.
Are these the people you take as moral guides?
Sudan and Gaza: Our Moral Test.
The tears of a mother in Darfur weigh the same as the tears of a mother in Gaza.
If we boycott Zionist corporations, we must also boycott the Arab states acting as Zionism’s subcontractors.
Boycott Dubai. Boycott Emirati goods.
Refuse their illusions. Reject their propaganda. Expose their crimes.
The Black Sudanese Muslim is not disposable. His life is sacred. His suffering is not an afterthought. If we do not rise, if we let Sudan bleed in silence, history will curse us as accomplices to genocide.
One Struggle, One Ummah.
From Gaza to Sudan, from Yemen to Kashmir, the flags of the oppressors may differ, but their hearts are identical, darkened by greed, cruelty, and arrogance.
Allah calls the Ummah to unity, justice, mercy.
They sold that unity for palaces, for partnerships with enemies of Allah, for thrones built on skulls.
Let every khutbah mention Sudan.
Let every household speak its name.
Let every community remember Gaza and Darfur. Stand with Sudan as you stand with Palestine. For their blood cries out with the same voice.
Rise. Speak. Resist.
For silence is complicity, and complicity is betrayal.
