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Iran and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been accused of violating a UN arms embargo by supplying drones to the warring sides in the 14-month conflict that has devastated Sudan. We look at the evidence to back up the claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the morning of 12 March 2024, Sudanese government soldiers were celebrating an unprecedented military advance. They had finally recaptured the state broadcaster\u2019s headquarters in the capital, Khartoum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like most of the city, the building had fallen into the hands of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the start of the civil war 11 months earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What was notable about this military victory for the army was that videos showed the attack was carried out with the help of Iranian-made drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the early stages of the war, the army relied on the air force, according to Suliman Baldo, director of the Sudan Transparency and Policy Observatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe armed forces found all their preferential forces besieged, and they had no fighting forces on the ground,” he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The RSF maintained ground control of most of Khartoum and Darfur in the west of Sudan, while the army maintained its presence in the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By early January 2024, a video emerged on Twitter of an army drone shot down by the RSF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Wim Zwijnenburg, a drone expert and head of the Humanitarian Disarmament Project at Dutch peace organisation PAX, its wreckage, engine, and tail resembled an Iranian-manufactured drone called Mohajer-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Mohajer-6 is 6.5m long, can fly up to 2,000 km (1,240 miles) and carry out airstrikes with guided freefall munitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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