Sudan had requested urgent measures to halt violence against the Masalit ethnic group but the UAE rejected the case as legally unfounded and politically motivated. The United Nations' highest ...

The application also concerned “acts adopted, condoned, taken, and being taken by the Government of the UAE in connection with the genocide against the Masalit group in the Republic of the Sudan ...

Sudan brought the case in March 2025, urging the ICJ to impose provisional measures against the UAE, including an order to cease support to the RSF and to take steps to prevent further atrocities, ...

he sultanate city of Surakarta, also known as Solo, in Central Java, has recently become the talk of the town, not because of any great event it will host, but due to the controversy over whether ...

Sudan’s acting justice minister, Muawia Osman, told the court that “a genocide is being committed against the ethnic group of the Masalit in the west of our country,” with the “support and ...

Sudan launched a case alleging that genocide against the Masalit community in Darfur by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) would not have been possible without the support of the UAE.

including telling the UAE to do all it could to prevent the killings and other crimes targeting the Masalit people. In a hearing last month the UAE argued the court had no jurisdiction.

West Darfur state was the site of intense ethnic-based attacks by the RSF and its allied Arab militias against the Masalit in 2023. The United States has also accused the RSF of genocide ...

including telling the UAE to do all it can to prevent the killing and other crimes targeting the Masalit people. The UAE called the filing a publicity stunt and, in a hearing last month ...