After expelling the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from Khartoum in late March the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan is now focusing on the militia's presence in Darfur and its principal supporters: Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno ‘Kaka' and United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahayan (MBZ) (Dispatches 24/3/24 Burhan's forces capture presidential palace tightening their grip on Khartoum)...

The growing influence of Islamists including loyalists to the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime ousted in 2019 on the SAF has sounded alarm bells with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahayan (MBZ) who sees groups linked to Al Ikhwan al Muslimun (Muslim Brothers) as an existential threat to the region...

The sanctions were a rare wake-up call to UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahayan (MBZ) and family who had assumed they would continue to enjoy impunity for their military and gold-trading operations in Africa...

As the RSF press conference was being cancelled Ruto was in Abu Dhabi meeting the UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahayan (MBZ) whose government provides weapons and funds to the RSF as reported in serial UN investigations and well-documented news reports by Reuters and the New York Times...

Abiy's vision for Addis Ababa and modernised Ethiopia will continue to depend on the United Arab Emirates and his personal relationship with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahayan a connection that strongly reinforces Abiy's belief in his own charisma and abilities...

United Arab Emirates leader Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahayan wants to strengthen Kaka's role in the supply chain to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti'...

Here Egypt has taken on the UAE's Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahayan (MBZ) on two separate issues: Abu Dhabi's strong backing for the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan's war while Cairo backs the Sudan Armed Forces under General Abdel Fattah al Burhan...

Then Burhan and the UAE's Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahayan (MBZ) spoke by telephone for the first since Sudan's war started in April 2023...

UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahayan (aka MBZ) seems to be too heavily invested to condition his support to Hemeti which is premised on his global campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood and all its works whose hand he sees in the SAF and its support base...