Sudan has filed a case against the United Arab Emirates at the World Court for allegedly violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention by arming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the International Court of Justice said on Thursday.

Sudan is taking the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of supporting Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the civil war. Khartoum argues the UAE is "complicit in the genocide" of the Masalit community,

A war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has resulted in some 150,000 deaths, according to a former US envoy.

Sudan claims the UAE supplied arms to paramilitary forces conducting ethnic-based attacks in West Darfur state