Opinion
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The Emirati “Puntland Project”: Somali and Colombian Mercenaries Between Sudan and the Horn of Africa
By Ammar – AlAraki Journalist and Political Analyst Amid the sweeping transformations in Sudan and the wider Horn of Africa, a complex network is gradually being uncovered—one that ties the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) through the recruitment of Somali mercenaries, alongside Colombian fighters enlisted to bolster the RSF’s ranks. This strategy reflects the growing reach of what analysts have dubbed the Emirati “Puntland Project”—a hybrid model that fuses the…
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Sudan Between the Chaos of Influence and the Challenges of Survival
By Engineer Tarig H. Zain El Abdein Head of the Foreign Relations Sector, National Congress Party – SudanJuly 8, 2025 Political and Security Context Sudan is experiencing an unprecedented phase of political and security fluidity. Armed conflict continues between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the rebellious Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, while competing centers of power are emerging at the expense of central state authority. In this volatile climate, regional and international agendas intersect…
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Part II: When Law Collapses and Narrative Prevails
Strategic Testimony, Legal Disintegration, and the Erosion of Sovereignty By: Sabah Al-Makki, Assistant Editor Writing from within the storm I. Narrative on Trial — Setting the Stage For context, read Part I: The Fiction of Parity Following a congressional hearing that established a false equivalence between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and a foreign-backed militia, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), this second installment delves into the deeper issue: the narrative as a doctrine. This strategic…
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Mediation or Machination: Kenya’s Role in Sudan’s Proxy War
Part IV – Laundering Power: The Kenya–RSF–UAE Triangle Gold, guns, and geopolitics—how three actors turned peace into profit and rebellion into diplomacy. This isn’t mediation. It’s laundering power. It’s the architecture of impunity. By Sabah Al-Makki, Assistant Editor Writing from within the storm The Rapid Support Forces’ militia (RSF) gold-fueled empire was never built to sustain conflict—it was built to outgrow it. What began as a battlefield economy soon mutated into a regional architecture capable…
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Mediation or Machination: Kenya’s Role in Sudan’s Proxy War
Part III: The Trial That Never Was Where the gavel never fell—because the system never intended it to. By Sabah Al-Makki, Assistant Editor Writing from within the storm If diplomacy legitimized rebellion and gold financed its expansion, then Part III reveals the final sanctuary that was breached: justice itself. This is the story of how the International Criminal Court (ICC)—once poised to prosecute the architects of Kenya’s post-election bloodshed—was not defeated by lack of evidence…
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Mediation or Machination: Kenya’s Role in Sudan’s Proxy War
Part II: War by Other Means The Testimony, the Gold Corridor, and the Cover-Up What Kenya called diplomacy was, from the start, war in disguise. By Sabah Al-Makki, Assistant Editor Writing from within the storm What Kenya called diplomacy was, from the start, war in disguise. Part II unearths the architecture behind the façade: a covert axis linking Nairobi, Abu Dhabi, and the RSF militia, where gold funds warfare, protocol masks rebellion, and statecraft becomes…
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Mediation or Machination: Kenya’s Role in Sudan’s Proxy War
Part I: The Veil and the Vault Kenya’s Dual Role in Sudan’s Proxy War—From Diplomatic Mask to Material Complicity By Sabah Al-Makki, Assistant Editor Writing from within the storm While Kenya positioned itself as a neutral mediator in Sudan’s conflict, verified evidence reveals a more troubling alignment beneath the surface. What was projected as diplomacy increasingly appears as strategic complicity: political endorsement and material support to a sanctioned non-state militia cloaked in the language of…
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Part I: The Fiction of Parity
From the exposé series: “Narrative as Strategy — How the U.S. Reframed Sudan’s War” By Sabah Al-Makki, Assistant Editor Writing from within the storm A Forensic Exposé of the U.S. Congressional Hearing on Sudan In moments of international rupture, when war converges with diplomacy, it is no longer arms alone that shape outcomes—but language. When narrative supersedes legal precision and testimonial rhetoric is accorded greater weight than substantiated evidence, the result is not merely a…
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Narrative as Strategy: How the U.S. Reframed Sudan’s War
A Five-Part Critical Exposé by Brown Land News By Sabah Al-Makki, Assistant Editor Writing from within the storm In response to the May 22, 2025, U.S. Congressional Hearing: “A Dire Crisis in Sudan – A Global Call to Action” What was presented to the world as a humanitarian imperative concealed something more consequential: the quiet dismantling of a nation’s legitimacy through narrative warfare. The Strategy Behind the Language To dismantle a nation’s legitimacy is to…
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Strategic Sanctions: The War on Sudanese Sovereignty Through Law
By Sabah Al-Makki, Assistant Editor Writing from within the storm. Sanctions are no longer accountability tools—they have become instruments of subjugation. In Sudan’s case, the real offense is not aggression, but the refusal to collapse. This article examines how international law is being strategically repurposed to punish sovereignty and protect proxies in a global order increasingly driven by narrative warfare. From Accountability to Control: Sanctions as Subjugation For over three decades, U.S. sanctions against Sudan…