News - Middle East: The government of Sudan’s de facto leader Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan has requested an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting to address what was described as the United Arab Emirates' (UAE)'s “aggression against the Sudanese people.”

The UAE government is allegedly backing the paramilitary group battling the Sudanese army, providing it with military and financial aid.
Sudan's regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Burhan's former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, have been in a power struggle in the African country since last year.
So far, the government remains in control of most of the Nile Valley and the country’s eastern provinces and ports, while the RSF wields control over most of the oil-rich Darfur region, most of the capital region and parts of North and West Kordofan.