American report tracks an Emirati plane violating the Sudanese airspace

The Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale University made a confidential report submitted to the US Congress Sanctions Committee. The report showed the movement of an Emirati cargo plane flying over areas controlled by the Rapid Support Militia in North Darfur. The university sought help from Yale HRL, a company specializing in satellite imagery. It revealed that, based on their assessment, the plane was an Ilyushin (IL-76). It flew east over territory controlled by the Rapid Support Militia, east of El Fasher city on the morning of June 11, 2024. The plane which was visible in satellite images then flew about 12 kilometers northeast of its initial location. In their analysis, Yale University relied on tools designed to meet the needs of American government agencies such as the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies, including high-resolution satellite image services with an accuracy of up to 30 cm, which allows the identification of fine details of the Earth.
Analysts tracked multiple flights of the IL-76 plane, saying that it is used by the UAE and its starting points in the UAE. The flight stops midway in Nairobi, Ethiopia, Entebbe, Uganda. The final destinations are in N’Djamena or Um Jaras in Chad. There are ground photos of the existing IL-76 planes at Um Jaras Airport. These flights took place on multiple occasions throughout May and June 2024 and include a 6 June 2024 Skyline Airlines flight (SLF4942) between Mombasa, Central Africa and Chad, a New Way Cargo Airlines IL-76 flight to the United Arab Emirates on 12 June 2024.
It is observed that these flights turn off their signal receivers. Analysts added that the Sudanese Army does not use IL-76 aircraft for resupply in Darfur. Photos and videos of air resupply of the Sudanese Armed Forces showed that the aircrafts they use doesn’t match the IL -76, and no use of IL-76 aircraft by the Sudanese army was recorded.
The report of the United Nations Panel of Experts issued in January 2024 provided reliable information that shipments of weapons and ammunition are being unloaded several times from cargo planes arriving at Um Jaras Airport. Then they are loaded onto trucks as part of resupply from the United Arab Emirates to the Rapid Support Militia.
The experts’ team added that various flight tracking experts noticed a heavy rotation of cargo planes coming from Abu Dhabi International Airport to Um Jaras Airport in eastern Chad, with stops in regional countries such as Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. The planes were transporting weapons, ammunition and medical equipment for the Rapid Support Militia. The report called on the UN Security Council to request more information from the UAE on whether it is resupplying the Rapid Support militia in El Fasher military operations.