SAF denies targeting UAE embassy in Khartoum

KHARTOUM – The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has denied a claim by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that the Sudanese military targeted the residence of its ambassador in Khartoum in an airstrike.

In a statement yesterday, the UAE claimed that the Sudanese army bombed the residence of its embassy in Khartoum and threatened to file a complaint against the Sudanese government at the United Nations, the Arab League, and the African Union.

“The United Arab Emirates has strongly condemned the heinous attack that targeted the residence of the UAE Head of Mission in Khartoum by a Sudanese army aircraft, which resulted in extensive damage to the building. The UAE has called on the army to assume full responsibility for this cowardly act,” the UAE statement dated yesterday partly reads.

The UAE’s statement, which did not date the incident, comes just days after the Gulf country said at least four of its soldiers were killed in an activity without mentioning the place where the incident took place, despite claims by some sections of the Sudanese media that they died in an SAF airstrike in Nyala.

In a statement this morning, the SAF spokesman denied and condemned the accusation, saying that the SAF does not target diplomatic missions and instead accused the RSF, which it referred to as a “terrorist militia,” of being the one behind targeting of diplomatic missions since the start of the conflict.

“The Sudanese armed forces condemns and denies the accusation by the United Arab Emirates of bombing the residence of its ambassador in Khartoum, and asserts that it does not target the headquarters of diplomatic missions, United Nations agencies or voluntary organizations and does not turn them into military bases and loot their assets,” the statement reads in part.

“The one that carries out these heinous and cowardly actions is the terrorist, rebel Dalgo militia supported in committing all this by a country known to the world. And it continues to carry out these acts under the eyes and ears of countries and international organizations,” it added.

It concluded by saying that the SAF “does not carry out these cowardly acts and does not violate international law but only targets areas where the militia is present and that is within its right to defend the Sudanese nation.”