Riyadh condemns RSF’s ‘prison’ assaults in Kordofan, blames international fighters and weapons for fuelling Sudan’s three-year battle.
Printed On 8 Feb 2026
Saudi Arabia has reaffirmed its help for Sudan’s territorial unity and integrity, denouncing “prison assaults” by the paramilitary Speedy Help Forces (RSF) in North and South Kordofan states which have killed dozens of individuals, together with ladies and youngsters.
In an announcement on Saturday, the Saudi Ministry of Overseas Affairs condemned “international interference” by “some events” in Sudan, together with the “continued inflow of unlawful weapons, mercenaries and international fighters” for the continuation of the almost three-year-old battle.
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The assertion didn’t specify the events, although.
It got here a day after the Sudan Medical doctors Community, a humanitarian group, mentioned a drone assault by the RSF on a car transporting displaced households in North Kordofan killed at the very least 24 individuals, together with eight youngsters.
The assault adopted a collection of drone raids on humanitarian help convoys and gas vans throughout North Kordofan, together with an assault on a World Meals Programme convoy on Friday that killed at the very least one individual.
Combating between the RSF and Sudan’s military has intensified throughout Kordofan in latest months following the autumn of el-Fasher to the paramilitary group in October. The almost three-year-long battle has killed an estimated 40,000 individuals and pushed greater than 21 million — virtually half of Sudan’s inhabitants — into acute meals shortages.
The Saudi Ministry of Overseas Affairs mentioned on Saturday the lethal RSF assaults “are fully unjustifiable and represent flagrant violations of all humanitarian norms and related worldwide agreements”.
The ministry demanded that “RSF instantly stop these violations and cling to its ethical and humanitarian obligation to make sure the supply of reduction help to these in want in accordance with worldwide humanitarian legislation” and a ceasefire deal agreed by the opponents in Jeddah in 2023.
It added that “some events” had been fuelling the battle by sending in weapons and fighters, regardless of “these events’ declare of supporting a political answer” in Sudan.
The assertion comes amid allegations by the Sudanese authorities that the United Arab Emirates has been arming and funding the RSF. Sudan filed a case towards the UAE on the Worldwide Court docket of Justice final 12 months, accusing it of “complicity in genocide” dedicated by the RSF towards the Masalit neighborhood in West Darfur state.
The UAE has denied the allegations.
Individually, Saudi Arabia has additionally accused the UAE of backing the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen. The STC, initially a part of the Saudi-backed internationally recognised authorities of Yemen, launched a serious offensive final December within the nation’s Hadramout and al-Mahra provinces, looking for to determine a separate state.
The offensive resulted in a break up in Yemen’s internationally-backed authorities, and prompted Saudi Arabia to launch lethal raids concentrating on the STC.
The UAE pulled out its troops from Yemen following the Saudi allegation, saying it helps Saudi Arabia’s safety.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE had been members of the Arab navy coalition, fashioned to confront the Houthis, who took full management of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, in 2015.
